Luke Ford Quotes

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

Luke Ford

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Talent

• We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Why
  • Political
  • Change

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Vision
  • First
  • Filmmaking

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Poetry
  • Will
  • Greatest

• For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Indispensable
  • Presents

• I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Experience
  • Lies

• I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

  

  Charles Bass
  • American

• 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Different
  • Song

• Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Job
  • Today

• Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Friends

• I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Up
  • Great
  • Remember

• When deeds speak, words are nothing.

  

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • Words

• The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Intimacy
  • Connected
  • Gigs

• I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Money
  • Black

• Villains are fun to play.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Villains

• Cycling's primarily a pushing motion, and skiing is more pulling, so it kind of balances out the body.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Skiing

• Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these," said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers. "I'm not putting them on," said old Archie in indignation. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Healthy

• I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Intimacy