"On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually."

-- Gary Oldman

#Thinking Quotes #Directors Quotes #Example Quotes

“If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .”
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated
“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.”
“Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.”
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.”

Source : Source: harvardmagazine.com
“An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.”
“My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.”

Source : "ERNEST GALLO: 1909-2007 / With brother, he created world's biggest winery" by W. Blake Gray, Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. March 7, 2007.
“I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.”

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