Clint Eastwood Quotes

In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'

Clint Eastwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1930

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TimeStoryCareYouSeeingCareer

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

Jesmyn Ward

ExperienceMeWriteTwoAnything

I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

ShortGuyWhoTooListenedSwedish

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.

Robert Reich

MoneyHelpRippleSalesEconomyOwn

I wrestled in high school, so I actually have a bit of a base in grappling.

Matt Lanter

SchoolHigh SchoolHighActuallyBit

What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.

Michael Mann

TimePeopleAmbitionImpactMoments

200,000 ISIS tweets a day, 1,000 investigations in all 50 states. It's really hard to stop all of it. But we have to get control over this Internet propaganda that is poisoning the minds of the United States.

Michael McCaul

DayControlInternetStopMindsGet

It is important to always look forward.

Claudio Ranieri

ForwardLookImportantAlways

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

ThinkSaidBreatheMustAbleThem

I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you, and that relics decide when you're ready to handle them. I'm a cinephile first and a filmmaker second, and it's all swimming in the subconscious.

Scott Derrickson

SwimmingYouChooseReadyFirst

Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

Rick Bayan

PeopleStandTakeWhoMostTimid

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

Gunter Grass

TimeBornWantCircumstancesSee

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

HappinessKnowledgeScienceBetter

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