Andrew Lau Quotes

I don't care about the critics.

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• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Much
  • Mature
  • Less

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Poverty
  • Security
  • Living

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

  

  OMI
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • True
  • Day
  • Gold

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Right
  • Stability

• When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.

  

  Greg Dulli The Afghan Whigs
  • People
  • Play
  • Chance

• I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Music
  • Live

• Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • World
  • Music
  • Help

• The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Image
  • Brilliance

• The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Image
  • Tonto
  • Lone Ranger

• I don't care about the critics.

  

  Andrew Lau