Lucy Walker Quotes

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

Lucy Walker

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• Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• 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

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Jungle

• The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Movies

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Always
  • Almost
  • Composition

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

  

  Ice T
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Gotta

• The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Up
  • Black
  • Growing

• This is the unique element in the gospel, which tells us that what we could never do, God has done. We cannot climb up to heaven to discover God, but God has come down to earth, in the person of his Son, to reveal himself to us in the only way we could really understand: in terms of a human life.

  

  Norman Anderson
  • Life
  • God
  • Son

• If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

  

  John Milton
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Incessant

• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  

  Lucy Walker