Very Quotes · Page 141

At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

— Patrick Collison

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the…

— Robert Wilson

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely…

— Helen Hunt

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

— Marco Rubio

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

— Laurence Fox

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

— Greg Lynn

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate…

— Hilary Mantel

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and…

— Demetri Martin

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in…

— Alan Bennett

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

— Monica Crowley

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

— Josh Dallas

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.

— Michel Hazanavicius

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a…

— Saina Nehwal

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

— Fareed Zakaria

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much…

— Harry Lloyd

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

— Irwin Redlener

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm…

— Lindsey Wixson

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

— Stephen Moyer

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of…

— John Wells

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences…

— Darren Aronofsky

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to…

— Margaret Atwood

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was…

— Jessica Hagedorn

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go…

— Reid Scott

The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very…

— Joe Posnanski

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

— Rachel Roberts

Some actors, they have to carry this macho, very masculine element to them, but it's difficult for me to understand that.

— Romain Duris

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple…

— Jesse Harris

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

— Kim Collins

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as…

— Lucy Punch

I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move…

— Tony Scott

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

— Bahman Ghobadi

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

— Domenico Dolce

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of…

— Romola Garai

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

— Noel Fisher

I'm not very good at dating. I'm very decisive. If I like someone, then they're my boyfriend. It's pretty straightforward.

— Vinessa Shaw

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want…

— Oscar Isaac

Well, I'm just very blessed that I still love my work and I can still work, I still have an audience and…

— Emmylou Harris

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now.…

— Joe Strummer

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche…

— Zayn Malik