Kevin Heffernan Quotes

It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

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• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Experience
  • True
  • Emotional

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Money
  • Night
  • Lie

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sympathy
  • Without
  • Funeral

• St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • High
  • City
  • Lies

• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Artist
  • Look
  • Grow

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

  

  James Turrell
  • Work
  • Art
  • Light

• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  

  Lalo Schifrin
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I'll try to express instead is, 'What we're going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women's bodies. So I want them framed as though they're bursting out of the panel borders.'

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Good
  • Women
  • Effort

• It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • Important
  • Long
  • Friends

• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • People
  • Work