With People Quotes

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

You can't always let people do their own thing.