Lyn Nofziger Quotes

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

Lyn Nofziger

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Me
  • Homeland
  • Kick

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Perfection

• It's not about the money with me.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Me
  • About

• I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Best
  • Person
  • See

• And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Energy
  • Ideas
  • Talking

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely

• I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Remember
  • Purpose

• The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Men
  • Place

• My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Everything

• Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Planning

• We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought would happen in our country. And we picked ourselves up and sorted ourselves out as all good British people do, and I thought, let us stand together for we are British! They were trying to destroy the fundamental freedom that is the birth-right of every British citizen, freedom, justice and democracy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Years

• A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

  

  Lyn Nofziger