Walter Gilbert Quotes

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Walter Gilbert

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• For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Emotional
  • End
  • Building

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Big Fan

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• Thinking differently is my strength.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Strength

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • May
  • Past

• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Change
  • Result

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
  • Dangerous
  • Lighthouse

• It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Life
  • Winning

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Son
  • Racism

• When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Real

• When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn