Chris Wooding Quotes

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Dumb
  • Unpredictable

• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Baby
  • Born
  • Texas

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Enemy
  • Dope

• It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Day
  • Fly

• I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Political
  • Change

• I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Respect
  • Petty
  • Her

• Art lies because it's social.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art
  • Lies

• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • American
  • Organization

• after the release of Black:

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Black

• The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Nihilism

• Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Cave
  • Materia Prima

• God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him. I found that questioning Him and searching for answers through Scripture helped me grow and gave me direction. Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.

  

  Clint Dempsey
  • Desire
  • Christ
  • Answers

• Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Feeling
  • Humanity
  • Genius

• There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

  

  Chris Wooding