Jeff Lynne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
Kate Middleton -
The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
Ina Garten -
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell -
It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
Gavin MacLeod -
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
Karl Schroeder -
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein
-
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
Laura Dern -
I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell -
I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
Zachary Knighton -
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl Marlantes -
I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
Walter Murch
-
I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
Wang Jianlin -
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
Walead Beshty -
I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb -
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.
Laura Riding -
DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?
Morrissey The Smiths
-
I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.
Bob Mayer -
It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.
David Rakoff -
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
Madchen Amick -
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
Holly Hunter -
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
Bob Brown -
To me, making records isn't work.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra