After ‘Skins’ I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
I remember starting working on the concept and the script for ‘Pacific Rim’ with a very, very conscious decision to say, ‘I don’t want any of these big sequences to take place in America,’ because I feel like that’s become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping.
Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
For some people, it’s best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington’s and some time in the future they’ll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.
I know it sounds funny, but every time I have a disaster in the kitchen, it knocks my confidence level a little bit more, and I feel annoyed with myself that I can’t do better.
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what’s on the other side of it. That’s in our nature. What’s also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure – error rather than terror.
When I take go-karts out with my friends, it’s a disaster normally. But in the race car, I’m calm because they pay me to do this, and I have to be professional.
I’m a disaster and I’m super messy.
Donald Trump is a disaster.
If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
Without unity, the country will face disaster.
One of my favorite books is ‘The Swiss Family Robinson.’ The reason is, I’m fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
There are some keys to success in the fad business. One is never give up. You need total motivation and the right kind of creativity. You also have to back the right activity. It is a disaster if you back the wrong idea with your energy. You not only lose money, but you take a big social risk.
Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.
It’s a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you’re doing is brilliant or a total disaster.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married… disaster.
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally – and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it’s a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it’s certainly a blast. I wouldn’t trade lives with anyone right now.
Adventure books are my personal favorites. ‘The Endurance,’ a story about Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctica expedition, or ‘Into Thin Air,’ Jon Krakauer’s personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.
As a past attorney general I consider a WTO Brexit to be a disaster for us as, leaving aside the economic damage it will cause, it would trash our reputation for observing our international obligations – as it must lead to our breaching the Good Friday Agreement with Ireland on the Irish border.
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it’s being implemented is a disaster.
Chernobyl is a unique place on the planet, where nature revives after a world-wide man-made disaster, where there is a real ‘ghost town.’
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the ‘policies of the past’ and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
Pretending that there are no choices to be made – reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice – is a prescription for disaster for the young.
I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me – but we were unable to agree financial terms with them… With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.
Obviously, it’s my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn’t be a disaster if I didn’t achieve that.
With a disaster like global warming, it’s too late to worry about when it’s looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.
In times of disaster, basic connectivity is a form of aid that connects people to the resources critical for survival and enables humanitarian organizations to quickly deliver life-saving information.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.
Do not try to play politics using the health of the public during a disaster.
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 – only this time, it’s not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it’s tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
I’m not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn’t find them.
The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
In 2005, I played Count Fosco in ‘The Woman In White’ on Broadway. It was a disaster. I was physically run down and terribly homesick and I just knew I had to leave. I lasted three months before the producers released me.
At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.
The concept of ‘DAM999’ is very interesting, which director Sohan Roy has written. The entire idea was to capture or encapsulate the nine rasas depicting different human emotions in the backdrop of dam disaster.
