Linford Christie Quotes

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

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• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Advertising

• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Band
  • Like
  • Task

• I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Change
  • Wish

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Deep

• I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Me
  • Football

• I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Superstitious
  • Toasts

• Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Sad

• Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) - you will be worthy and richly rewarded.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Time

• There would always be a bunch of fucking grousers and nay-sayers being like 'that was uncalled for.'

  

  Kevin Smith

• I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Opportunity

• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  

  Lisa See
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

  

  John Howe
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting

• It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Cool

• Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

  

  George Watsky
  • Future
  • Past
  • Living

• I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

  

  Linford Christie