Jane Austen Quotes

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Country
  • Heroes

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worry

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Unknown

• There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Kind

• The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Beginning
  • Wonderful
  • Just

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Honor

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

  

  Jason Scott Lee
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Amazing

• Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Father
  • Deserve
  • Heard