Havens Quotes - Page 37

• The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Relax, Way

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• I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Imagine

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• I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mother, Dad, Father

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Writing, Ideas, Caught

  "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

  Lois Lowry

  Couple, Book, Fall

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• It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Sound, United States

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• A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Lying, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

  Janet McTeer

  Children, Couple, Down And

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.

  Julie Mehretu

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.

  Nick Moran

  Running, Baby, Selfish

  "Nick Moran: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Land, Voice, Sound

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• I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!

  Sofia Vergara

  Kids, Thinking, Fantastic

  "Sofia Vergara Spills All: The Smurfs and Modern Family Star Opens Up About Being a Young Mom and Surviving Divorce and Cancer". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

  Allison Williams

  Running, Smart, Past

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• I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

  Michael K. Williams

  Mind, Roles, Problem

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• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Acting, Done

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• Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

  Lee Radziwill

  Regret, Liars, Thinking

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• We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

  Sam Wineburg

  Kids, Past, Grandparent

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• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

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• As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

  Bruno Mars

  Men, People, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Bruno Mars from Dec 16, 2011

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• It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

  Jenn Suhr

  Taken, Body, Whole Life

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• I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

  Howard Hawks

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  Abraham Verghese

  Shows, Love To Read, Willing

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• I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don’t have much experience, who haven’t covered campaigns, the result is, sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody’s time.

  David Shuster

  Thinking, People, News

  "David Shuster Slams Fox News Moderators At GOP Debate" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• 90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

  William O'Neil

  People, Done, Homework

  William J. O'Neil (2002). “How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times Or Bad”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

  Cy Coleman

  New York, Long, Used

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