Akiva Schaffer Quotes

I'm all about 'Halo 2'.

Akiva Schaffer

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• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Desire
  • Look
  • Mystery

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Working

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Place
  • Start
  • Wants

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Back
  • Go
  • Begin

• I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Reading

• Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nature

• Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Looking Forward

• English superiority and American obedience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • American
  • English

• It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

  

  Margaret Sanger

• The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Sun

• Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

  

  Jim Talent
  • World
  • Business
  • Experience

• Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.

  

  Charles Best
  • Political

• His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

  

  John Milton
  • Words

• In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Men

• The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Up
  • Time
  • Comedy

• There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Singing

• I'm all about 'Halo 2'.

  

  Akiva Schaffer