Figures Quotes

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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. — David Duchovny
I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I… — Robert Duvall
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes.… — Roger Ebert
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. — Evan Esar
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is… — Rupert Everett
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do… — Paul Feig
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought… — Paul Feig
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked… — Will Ferrell
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the… — Ralph Fiennes
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like… — Nathan Fillion
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure… — Joshua Foer
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to… — Scott Hamilton
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. — Harrison Ford
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure.… — Mark Haddon
If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine! — Tom T. Hall
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. — Scott Hamilton
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. — Scott Hamilton
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. — Scott Hamilton
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. — Scott Hamilton

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