Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

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• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Horrible

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Thought

• When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Better
  • Stand

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Read books. They are good for us.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Good
  • Books
  • U.S.

• You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Good
  • May

• Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Different
  • Vegas

• I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Fashion
  • Decade
  • Outfit

• Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

  

  Jodie Foster
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  • Good

• I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

  

  Carol Burnett

• When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and I haven't really, you know. I've just told some stories.

  

  James McBride
  • Done

• This kind of thinking is taking a long view, in which one must also count the imponderables, such as the effort of prolonged depression upon restless social forces; the inevitable necessity for National Socialism to move very far to the Left, the possible revolt of the people everywhere against dawdling tactics of their leaders.

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

  

  Antoine Fuqua