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John Ridley Quotes

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

John Ridley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: 1965

Topics

Work Hard Work Day Job Boss Slavery

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

Melvyn Bragg

Best Better Country Sometimes Planet

The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.

Robert LaSardo

Life Good Character People Bad

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

John Updike

God Fire Sky Imagination War Red

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

Amber Heard

Character Job Find Hollywood Suit

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Stephen Covey

Nature Makeup You Product Affect

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

Steven Pinker

Change Light Myself Action Perfect

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Jonathan Davis

Music Death Flowers Want Listen

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Donald Trump

Good You Say Nothing Get Even

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

Claire Messud

Husband Had

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Bob Parsons

Roads You Find Down Wrong Go

Trump has benefitted indirectly from a strong belief of evangelicals that the two terms of Barack Obama has led the country to the brink of destruction. Obama was bad enough in their eyes; having the Clintons back in the White House would be the end.

Anthea Butler

Eyes Strong End Enough Bad House

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

Nuno Bettencourt

Great Past Words Writing Song Busy