Yance Ford Quotes
Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
-
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
-
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
-
I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
-
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
-
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
-
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
-
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
-
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
-
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
-
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
-
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
-
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
-
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
-
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
-
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
-
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
-
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
-
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
-
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
-
Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.
-
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
-
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
-
Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
