Picks Quotes - Page 13

• It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Character, People

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

  Alexander Payne

  Moving, Book, Wind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Honesty, Men

  Source: movieweb.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

  Amy Walter

  Real, Kids, Bully

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

  Abbie Cornish

  Book, Reading, Details

  "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Artist, Thinking

  "Denzel Washington Remembers 'Malcom X' And 'The Wizard Of Oz'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 1, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

  Ed Sheeran

  Successful, Thinking, Effort

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Want, Wow, Written

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home.

  Bill Maher

  Home, Government, Mcdonalds

  17 Copy quote

• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Admire, Paul Scholes

  30 Copy quote

• If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick
  the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a
  woman.

  Martha McSally

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  "Retired US officers react to Pentagon lifting the ban on women in combat". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Political

  4 Copy quote

• I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

  Joan Smalls

  Brain, Style, Doe

  "Joan Smalls on House of Style, Rihanna, and Eating Sugar" by Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. September 8, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  Gene Simmons

  Guitar, Trying, Want

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!

  Stacey Snider

  Real, One Day, Gold

  4 Copy quote

• So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, Political, Way

  7 Copy quote

• I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Symbolism, Numbers, Order

  7 Copy quote

• I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

  Tyler Farr

  Song, Thinking, Track

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Your Smile, Boat, Overboard

  Jentezen Franklin (2017). “Right People, Right Place, Right Plan: Discerning the Voice of God”, p.30, Whitaker House

  158 Copy quote

  Show source

• I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

  Martin McDonagh

  Agents, Want, Given

  4 Copy quote

• It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Moving, Small Numbers, Average

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

  Alan Kay

  Thinking, Voice, Brain

  7 Copy quote

• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

  David Simon

  Pain, Betrayal, Florida

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Reflection, Hints

  4 Copy quote