Antony Johnston Quotes

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• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Learn
  • Director
  • Early

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Up
  • Money
  • Movies

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Human
  • Grace

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Unique

• I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Me
  • Fan
  • Mail

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Work Hard

• Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Advice

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Together
  • History

• If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Time
  • Food
  • Sick

• I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Great
  • American
  • Start

• At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Decision
  • Will
  • Act

• Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Ghost
  • Hybrid

• There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Done
  • May

• I love Scrivener. I've been using it since early 2007, and now I can't imagine working in anything else.

  

  Antony Johnston