J. August Richards Quotes

Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Team
  • Alone

• I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Children
  • Man
  • Small

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Power
  • Nature

• I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Down
  • Bring

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Just
  • Going

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Age
  • Hug

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Done
  • Kind

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • More
  • Slave

• My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Soul

• I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • Feeling

• What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Enjoy
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over