Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
‘Daredevil’ is incredible, but I mean, ‘The Mighty Ducks’ put me in a conversation that I wasn’t in before. I feel like I owe a lot of my career to being in those movies.
One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted’s passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn’t come a sense of entitlement from fans that we owe them every second of our lives.
I talk to the guy who busted his butt all week to buy a color TV, and the woman who’s raising her kids, the people I owe a debt to. I’m talking to people in hotel rooms, lonesome people.
I’ve always helped my family out because I owe my success to them.
‘Love Sonia’ is very lucky for my career; I owe a lot to it. If I have a ‘Batla House,’ ‘Super 30,’ it’s only because of ‘Love Sonia.’
I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I’ve been on TV or I’ve appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.
We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I’m a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I’m passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, ‘Let’s hold.’
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
I’m constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: ‘This is how much interest I owe.’
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.
I am all for high art but I owe it to myself to be clever about it and do commercial things too.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
I’m not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money… when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.
Whatever simplicity I’ve achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I’ve read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I’ve forgotten what the point was.
Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.
If there’s a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
I owe my solitude to other people.
Everything I have, I owe to Jardim Irene. I want the children to see me there, that I’m giving them attention, so that they can have a good role model.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
I want to make it clear, I’m not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that’s what I want to do.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.
I’m benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation.
I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.
Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don’t ‘owe’ any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
I have learned a lot a lot in my three years at Gladbach and developed a feeling for what is best for me. I owe the club a lot.
I owe my career to ‘Duke.’
I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
I owe my life and hope to the gospel.
This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.
I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn’t been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on ‘Everybody Hates Chris’. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.
Hey, it’s been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin’. Ain’t nobody has to give me nothin’. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don’t want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
I perfectly understood President Obama’s attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It’s the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
What we’ve done as a country is, we’ve said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.
The people of Pennsylvania don’t owe me a mansion with a chef and a gardener.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
I have a few friends who are amazing stylists, so I owe them a lot.
Without our fans, we wouldn’t have anything. I owe everything I have to the ones that paid money. It trickles down to them paying my salary, so I’m always thankful.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know – that I owe my existence to immigration, I think that the fear of immigration that has existed in American history from the first day, I just find it to be wrong.
