Antoine Fuqua Quotes

When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Music
  • New
  • Update

• Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Learn

• 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Heart
  • Strong

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Nothing
  • Canada
  • Council

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Know
  • Conscious

• It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Work
  • Running
  • Water

• Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • True
  • Reality

• When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Work