Lyall Watson Quotes

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.

Lyall Watson

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ChangeWaterExperienceReachEasy

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

Joe R. Lansdale

WritingStoryYouKnowBurnWant

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

Jim Capaldi

DownUp And DownUpJumpingGreatest

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

John Sculley

NatureYouEntrepreneurOptimist

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

Alton Brown

TimeMeSomeoneLongFindLong Time

One of my favorite movies is 'Broadway Danny Rose.'

Michael Pena

RoseMoviesBroadwayFavoriteDanny

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

Missy Peregrym

CharacterBe StrongStrongBetterGo

I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real life who are just really awful.

Julia Davis

LifeI AmPeopleThinkYouMeet

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Donald Rumsfeld

TodayYouWillTellDaysForce

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Annie Lennox

GreatMeMotherhoodStartedIdentify

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

Ashley Benson

BestPeopleCoolThinkLovedWeird

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard

LeadershipOpportunityResponsibility

For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.

Peter Greenaway

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