N. R. Hanson Quotes

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

To be sexy means to have that special chemistry that arouses others, no matter what you look like. Energy and confidence play a big part, and great skin doesn't hurt.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.

If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

I believe myself capable of great things.

You have to like yourself before you can do anything!

Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

I was never a critic.

I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.