Arthur Phillips Quotes

I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.

Arthur Phillips

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • War
  • Reading
  • Star

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Mom
  • Listen
  • Clean

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Power
  • Party

• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Play
  • Taught

• High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Me
  • Problems
  • Working

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • School
  • Parents
  • Better

• Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mind

• 612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Art

• Remember we're all in this alone.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Remember
  • Alone

• I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

  

  Carmen Laforet
  • Death
  • Story
  • Ruined

• Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

  

  Samuel Rutherford
  • Humility
  • Weather
  • Affliction

• When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

  

  Linus Roache
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Global Warming
  • Overwhelming
  • Fuels

• I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.

  

  Arthur Phillips