Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

Paul Hawken

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Paul Anka

As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

Paul Auster

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Paul Auster

I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

Patrick Macnee

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Patrick Henry

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

Justin Amash

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

Jurgen Klinsmann

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Julia Leigh

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

Julia Morgan

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Julia Margaret Cameron

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Sawalha

After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.

Judd Apatow

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

Judd Apatow

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

Judd Apatow

I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.

Joseph Brodsky

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

Leonard Slatkin

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Leonard Slatkin

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life, when is spent well, is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

The days are long enough for those who use them.

Oscar Wilde

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Paul Robeson

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

Paul Reiser

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile

Patrice Leconte

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

Pascal Lamy

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.

Park Chan-wook

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Paloma Faith

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

Lillian Hellman

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

Leroy Chiao

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

LeRoy Neiman

Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had -- like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.