Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
-
If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
-
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
-
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
-
I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
-
I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
-
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
-
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
-
The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
-
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
-
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
-
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
-
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
-
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
-
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
-
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
-
I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
-
I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
-
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
-
America faces a new race that has awakened.
-
That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.
-
When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.
