Luke Treadaway Quotes
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
Quotes to Explore
-
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
-
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
-
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
-
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
-
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
-
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
-
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
-
We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
-
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
-
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
-
With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
-
China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
-
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
-
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
-
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
-
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
-
Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
-
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
-
The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'
-
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
-
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
-
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
-
The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
-
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
