Ahmad Jamal Quotes

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Ahmad Jamal

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WorkLivePeopleProblemYouDown

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Matthew Vaughn

HeartBudgetMoreBigGraphic Novels

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

Michael Bennet

PastThinkFightingHardKeep

My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.

Suki Waterhouse

ParentsMomNameHospitalPlastic

The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million.

Rob Reiner

GoodPictureYouMarketingKnowNow

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

Ruth Wilson

LifeBeautifulMeActionFrustration

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

Michelle Williams

LifeBestWalkHappyMeDinner

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

Joseph Brodsky

BeginningThoughtBetterKnowWay

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

Chris Hondros

HistoryMemoryPeoplePaintingThink

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

David Whyte

LionDeathAbilityCapableWithout

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

Christopher Gorham

ExperienceIdeasStartYouEditing

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.

Brian Friel

FaithRememberLongYouPartyKnow

I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

Chuck Liddell

FightWinProblemYouPlayManager

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