Admire Quotes - Page 19

• A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, Absence

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Acting, Serious

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• I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, World, Gags

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, World

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, Suffering

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, People, Different

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Two, Mind

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

  Meat Loaf

  Men, Views, Three

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• Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

  Ernst Haas

  Grateful, Secret, Trying

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Animal, Two

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.97, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

  Robert Altman

  Thinking, People, Secret

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

  Mark Webber

  Opportunity, Creating, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human condition, who we are, what we want, how we communicate to one another and this is also an exploration of a long-term relationship and what happens in it. There's human sexuality and all those kinds of things, so that helps - it all helps. You realise that I'm not a Playboy bunny.

  Julianne Moore

  Long, Atoms, Bunnies

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.

  Albert Hammond, Jr.

  Country, Giving, Stuff

  "Random Rules: Albert Hammond Jr". Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. May 8, 2007.

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• On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

  Dave Franco

  Ideas, People, Nerves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, People, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

  Roman Polanski

  Want, Film, Certain

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• I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

  Roman Polanski

  Morning, Makeup, People

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• The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

  Don DeLillo

  Years, Mind, Frozen

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Grateful, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Growing

  Source: collider.com

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