Michael Apted Quotes

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

Michael Apted

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 10, 1941

Topics

SoulCreatingMoviesMy OwnWrite

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Joe Bob Briggs

WorldUniversalDictatorsDraftMost

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

John Boyd Orr

GovernmentLawWorldInevitableMay

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

Meg Rosoff

DogPeaceCreativeCakeEnergy

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

John Prendergast

StereotypesCrisisAfricaRooted

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

Mike Wallace

MyselfWritingComfortableJustMuch

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

Julia Gillard

StandWeekYouKnowWantAustralia

I never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child.

Chelsea Clinton

ChildParentsMeIdeasMomThoughts

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

Chrissy Teigen

InspirationalPersonKindQuote

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

Corin Nemec

LifeLiveCharacterStoryCreate

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

Bob Schieffer

PeopleThinkHurtPoliticalYouGuy

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Antonin Scalia

PeopleAmazingDecisionsCourtMade

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Anne Perry

GoodPastPeopleDifferencesWonder

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