Figures Quotes

2652 quotes by 1970 authors

I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much… — Viggo Mortensen
I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind… — Jonathan Nolan
I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might… — Elia Kazan
When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical… — Ann Hood
In the 1970â€²s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part… — Deborah Butterfield
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works. — Randy Schekman
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is… — Rosellen Brown
I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being… — Stephen Sommers
I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly… — Brandon Stanton
It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep… — Antony Garrett Lisi
Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and… — Julie Klam
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there. — Jules Shear
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. — Richard Eder
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are… — Henry Anatole Grunwald
It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to… — Ira Glass
I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in… — Susan Rothenberg
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which… — Donald Fagen
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall… — Peter Lynch
Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to… — Tim Heidecker

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