Away Quotes

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.