Ridley Scott Quotes

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

Ridley Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1937

Topics

LiveAdvertisingTelevisionDrama

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.

Anderson Paak

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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Alveda King

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I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

Sigourney Weaver

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Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.

Tomi Lahren

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In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Tom Stoppard

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I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

Michelle Bachelet

LifeMomentHateQualityMeThink

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

Michelle Dockery

TheatreLearnDoingYouBehaveJust

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

Julia Ormond

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I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Jon Scieszka

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Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

Douglas Rushkoff

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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

Clifford D. Simak

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