Amy Ryan Quotes

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

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• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Real
  • Action
  • Discipline

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Perfect

• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Achievement

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Care
  • Easy
  • Take Care

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Will

• Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Different
  • Together
  • High

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

  

  John Dyer
  • Real
  • Freedom

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Father

• I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

  

  Amy Ryan
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Confidence