Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

Paul Haggis

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Hawken

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Pau Gasol

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

Pat Benatar

Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Julia Quinn

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Judd Apatow

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

Judd Apatow

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Judd Apatow

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Nelson DeMille

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

Rachel McAdams

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

Rachel Maddow

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

Nia Vardalos

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

Nia Long

I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.

Newt Gingrich

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again

Nestor Carbonell

I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.

Nick Cannon

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

Noam Chomsky

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

Mike Pence

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Joey Dunlop

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one...

Joe Swanberg

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

Joe Swanberg

I'm interested in taking things from my relationship that I don't see on screen - or that I feel like that could be useful or helpful if it were out in the open - and trying to put that in the movies as much as possible.

Joe Swanberg

It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my inclination is to try to get back to that as soon as possible. There's just never much of a gap.

Joe Meno

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Pat Sajak

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

Patanjali

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Martin Gore

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Martin Freeman

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Mark E. Smith

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

Mario Puzo

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.