Ron Livingston Quotes

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

Ron Livingston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 5, 1968

Topics

ChangeWomenHopeMenThinkDumb

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

John Dykstra

TravelEngineeringSlowCameraLook

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Matthew Sweet

ImaginationCollegeMeGrowing UpUp

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Steven Pinker

BrainSelfProcessAttentionOthers

In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.

Steve Winwood

WorkSpaceMeFeelEnvironment

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Tom Robbins

UnexpectedResultsTrueSystemOrder

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Robert Ballard

ScienceWrongEarthStudentDrift

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Martin Van Creveld

GrowDoubtWillBecomeResources

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Michael Shermer

WorldBetterLongRunUnderstand

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Don DeLillo

MenSecretsKnowWantNeedCompany

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

Donny Most

WorkThoughtComedyMoreDramatic

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

Dean Winters

InsuranceActorBecomeSuitSell

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

Bob Seger

AgeScienceI AmTryingKnowLiving

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