Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Related I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn'... EDDIE KAYE THOMAS I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta. ELIZABETH OLSEN You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the poi... JOHN HARTFORD I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d... SHIRLEY MANSON I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone ... PAIGE VANZANT I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there i... LAURA ESQUIVEL I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot. DAVID MACKENZIE I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of ... CARLA GUGINO Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... PATRICIA BRIGGS Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think y... CASSANDRA CLARE I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ... AMY WALDMAN Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot ... LISA UNGER As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a... RANDALL PARK In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad ch... DARREN STAR All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for... ISABEL ALLENDE I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. E... MAX IRONS I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was... ANTHONY DOERR Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are... PERSIS KHAMBATTA A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I... MAMIE GUMMER I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don... ISABEL ALLENDE It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc... XAVIER DOLAN I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don... JASON RITTER I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. EVE BEST I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choo... KATHRYN LASKY Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do an... KAJA FOGLIO I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what... DIANA GALBADON I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what... DIANA GABALDON Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that pe... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance. ESPERANZA SPALDING At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them. ALAN SHEARER With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They... CLAIRE FOY People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read f... DAVID LEVITHAN I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A... RICH SOMMER I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts ... RUBY ROSE Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that p... SONG HYE-KYO A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo... JOSS WHEDON Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I lik... EVA LONGORIA I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share w... ERYKAH BADU I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... ADAM SANDLER I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the s... DAVID BALDACCI If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are g... MARK HADDON I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi... J. A. KONRATH I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I ... ADRIANNE PALICKI I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of... CYNTHIA OZICK The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel li... TAYA KYLE When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surr... RODNEY ATKINS I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and... ANDREA ARNOLD I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I... BEYONCE KNOWLES I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be... PUSHA T I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot,... LOUIS THEROUX I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or ... MEGAN AMRAM Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate. Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful. SHANNON L. ALDER I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ... GARY ALLAN I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take ... GEORGINA CHAPMAN When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I... GARY VAYNERCHUK You don't want to disappoint, or feel like you're trying to recreate the magic of something. EMILY BERRINGTON Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them... RANDY PAUSCH A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes... JAMES PATTERSON I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much abou... TOM STOPPARD I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I... V. E. SCHWAB Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They're great fans whether they like me or not. They s... JOHN CENA I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools.... ROSE MCGOWAN Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like ident... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm be... KATE MOSS I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men... CHARLYNE YI I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out som... EVAN GOLDBERG The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years ... ANG LEE Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved ... ROSS BUTLER I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a... TARA STRONG I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters... RAINBOW ROWELL Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to ... CALLIE KHOURI Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Free... JAMES PATTERSON Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are ... bland, tasteless.... JULIANN GAREY I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why. PATRICIA RICHARDSON If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that ofte... MARK HADDON I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with ... ANN BRASHARES I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. MATTHEW MACFADYEN I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they'... AMIRI BARAKA I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natal... JAMIE BELL Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most... HANS MATHESON There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal... MANDY BUJOLD I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether th... MARC JACOBS Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just l... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true:... DYLAN THOMAS What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'... BARRY EISLER I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should. SYD BARRETT I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. CALVIN TRILLIN I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relati... AVAN JOGIA People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or w... KENYON MARTIN I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star... TAYARI JONES People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. I... ZACH ANNER I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li... DANA DELANY When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I do... CHRIS ISAAK
More Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track c... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and bor... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anyt... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs ca... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story bu... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work,... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to m... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just fin... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think some of the best actors ever were little kids. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Personally, when I watch mysteries, I never follow all the plot twists the first time, whether it be... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That's what Neil had to be and I didn't see myself that way and I didn't think anyone else did, so I... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There'... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytellin... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT We could have been the greatest love story ever told. If only you'd stayed in character. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Almost every script is anything from shabby to awful, but this one was great, JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I've played the smart kid, the funny one, the nice sweet one, even the angry one, but never the sexy... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his j... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As my story came to a close I realized that I was the villain all along. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whe... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until on... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B... ARTHUR LEVITT CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things. THEODORE LEVITT I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers... STEVEN LEVITT The motivation to satisfy Wall Street earnings expectations may be overriding common sense business ... ARTHUR LEVITT Richard is a multifaceted kind of guy, ARTHUR LEVITT It has been almost 30 years since significant steps were taken to improve the mutual fund governance... ARTHUR LEVITT We have an opportunity today that we may not have again in our lifetime, to realize the vision for a... ARTHUR LEVITT These issues are not academic or peripheral -- they directly affect every mutual fund investor. ... ... ARTHUR LEVITT do whatever was possible to expedite the process. ARTHUR LEVITT The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of t... ARTHUR LEVITT This is outrageous that just two months ago, a public offering was done. Major banking institutions ... ARTHUR LEVITT The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the A... ARTHUR LEVITT We are not looking for a bit of window dressing on the same old recycled gobbledygook, ... We expect... ARTHUR LEVITT Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you... ARTHUR LEVITT The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their abilit... STEVEN LEVITT Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their ... ARTHUR LEVITT I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their... MICHAEL LEVITT You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is... STEVEN LEVITT Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the... TED LEVITT They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cool... ARTHUR LEVITT Race is not in any way central to our arguments about abortion and crime. STEVEN LEVITT We all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fees, .... ARTHUR LEVITT I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of invest... ARTHUR LEVITT This is a reflex rally from the depths. Psychology has improved for two straight days, it's typical ... CHUCK LEVITT Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather throu... ARTHUR LEVITT Now, we all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fe... ARTHUR LEVITT Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. ARTHUR LEVITT The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious. TED LEVITT What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility. ARTHUR LEVITT Any operating system is impervious to viruses. It's just harder to do (to a Mac), it doesn't mean it... RICK LEVITT This effort will be an important addition ? to encourage the education of fund directors, ARTHUR LEVITT How many times have we seen an analyst on television being asked to list his top five picks? And how... ARTHUR LEVITT A careful balance of 'bright-line' rules establishing clear limits, coupled with greater disclosure,... ARTHUR LEVITT It is time for the U.S. securities market to make this change, ARTHUR LEVITT a way to gain and maintain favor with particular analysts. ARTHUR LEVITT High-quality and timely information is the lifeblood of strong, vibrant markets. It is at the very c... ARTHUR LEVITT I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s... ARTHUR LEVITT But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense... ARTHUR LEVITT That also has put pressure on analysts to report favorably on a company in order to maintain access ... ARTHUR LEVITT Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat... STEVEN LEVITT Sandy reacted to his times, and Chuck Prince is going to have to determine what his times are and ho... ARTHUR LEVITT His positives outweigh negatives (in different groups surveyed) by multiples of two, three, four, ev... STEVE LEVITT It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If ... STEVE LEVITT All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted child... STEVE LEVITT No one would disagree that restraining your child is about the single best thing you can do for prot... STEVEN LEVITT Betting on sports is actually a lot more like playing the stock market than it is the other games at... STEVEN LEVITT There aren't many people who succeed in doing it, but at least it's possible. STEVEN LEVITT Some of these deceased personalities have Q scores equal to or greater than some of the live persona... STEVEN LEVITT He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get... STEVEN LEVITT He doesn't make advertisers comfortable, that's for sure. He is not necessarily a fan favorite these... STEVEN LEVITT Sacred Heart is about being able to teach the faith day in and day out to whoever wants it. And when... BILL LEVITT We were always looking to get the local clergy to share with us their teachings, their prayers, thei... BILL LEVITT We're like any other talk-radio station in that we touch on the issues that affect our lives everyda... BILL LEVITT The miracle story of Catholic radio is that everything conventional in radio - advertising, billboar... BILL LEVITT What we have now is a huge over-supply...you could call it a glut...of total meat in the market. CHUCK LEVITT What is there not to like about Lucy? STEVE LEVITT Because everyone still 'loves Lucy' she left a great legacy behind, STEVEN LEVITT The animals did not conceive -- the mother hogs, the sows -- the baby pigs were not born last fall a... CHUCK LEVITT Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are... STEVEN LEVITT As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to ... STEVEN LEVITT The way that Zola was so productive reminds me of a wounded soldier who takes out more of the bad gu... MARK LEVITT Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation an... ARTHUR LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa... MARK LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa... MARK LEVITT E-mail has faced its challengers -- viruses, spam, regulations -- and emerged with its reputation br... MARK LEVITT While email has been bruised, it's emerged intact. What people are thinking now is not how I can get... MARK LEVITT I am skeptical about the idea that [instant messaging] is all of a sudden a new, fantastic idea that... MARK LEVITT A customer service person is usually expected to focus on a specific customer, a specific question, ... MARK LEVITT Assuming the survey results are accurate, this indicates that many companies do not yet recognize e-... MARK LEVITT You can't provide everything to everyone. The math doesn't work. LARRY LEVITT It doesn't last forever, and $600 or $700 a month is a lot to pay when someone has lost their income... LARRY LEVITT As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in ... LARRY LEVITT If you have even a mild health condition, your premium could be surcharged, or you could be denied c... LARRY LEVITT Most people who are eligible for COBRA don't take it. About 20 percent of eligible people use it. Th... LARRY LEVITT I think for the industry, it is also the most significant because it has the potential -- if litigat... LARRY LEVITT In many ways what's been happening in the economy hits them (working poor families) the worst. Those... LARRY LEVITT Once you start to become the butt of Jay Leno's jokes, ... you know you are in trouble. LARRY LEVITT With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits... LARRY LEVITT The policy reason why this is bad is that it puts the onus on the voter to fix the state's mistake. ... JUSTIN LEVITT Each of these states is on a collision course that could result in chaos at the polls in November as... JUSTIN LEVITT The lesson from New York City's audit is that a strictly applied no-match, no-vote policy would dise... JUSTIN LEVITT Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some... STEVEN D. LEVITT The conventional wisdom is often wrong. STEVEN D. LEVITT But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's perf... STEVEN D. LEVITT Over time, some ideas do cross the repugnance barrier to become reality. Charging interest on loans.... STEVEN D. LEVITT When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, t... STEVEN D. LEVITT But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their... STEVEN D. LEVITT When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothin... STEVEN D. LEVITT You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. GORDON LIGHTFOOT There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen... GORDON RAMSAY I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the... GORDON RAMSAY I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jacket... GORDON RAMSAY Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a n... ZACHARY GORDON I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages. ZACHARY GORDON When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials. ZACHARY GORDON I've always wanted to go to Australia. I hear it's a great place. I mean, kangaroos are pret... ZACHARY GORDON I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think ... ZACHARY GORDON The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game ... GORDON RAMSAY As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef ... GORDON RAMSAY Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T. GORDON BETHUNE The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that... GORDON GEE I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hu... GORDON BROWN If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I... GORDON RAMSAY If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it wou... DEXTER GORDON I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy'... KIM GORDON Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part ... GORDON SMITH For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content... GORDON SMITH Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Clevelan... JOSH GORDON I have let down many in Cleveland - my Browns teammates, our hard-working coaching staff, the team... JOSH GORDON I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the bi... JOSH GORDON When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information ... GORDON SMITH How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear... JULIUS GORDON When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'... BART GORDON If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the ... BART GORDON Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objection... BART GORDON A free public broadcast license is a privilege. BART GORDON If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about... BART GORDON I grew up in a funny way. GORDON RAMSAY My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school. GORDON RAMSAY If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die. GORDON RAMSAY If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever y... GORDON RAMSAY You don't come into cooking to get rich. GORDON RAMSAY Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. GORDON RAMSAY Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says. GORDON RAMSAY Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolu... GORDON RAMSAY I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a ... GORDON RAMSAY When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately. GORDON RAMSAY I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve. GORDON RAMSAY Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You'... GORDON RAMSAY My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we h... GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. GALE GORDON My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate. GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ... GALE GORDON The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these do... GORDON PARKS There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is societ... GEORGE GORDON Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramov... GORDON TAYLOR The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, gu... PATRICK GORDON Some read biographies of famous Christians to try to short-cut themselves into a deeper walk with th... GREG GORDON To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. SUZANNE GORDON If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power a... CHARLES GORDON A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... CAROLINE GORDON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society,... GEORGE GORDON To be somebody you must last. RUTH GORDON To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t... RUTH GORDON Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing... GORDON GRAHAM Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A s... GORDON SUMNER On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase ... GEORGE GORDON The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th... RUTH GORDON Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fail... ARTHUR GORDON There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ... GORDON GRAHAM At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The pr... ARTHUR GORDON Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind fait... GORDON SUMNER Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I re... GORDON PARKS A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... CAROLINE GORDON The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hard... GORDON SUMNER No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. GORDON ATKINSON It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift y... GORDON ATKINSON Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no ... GORDON ATKINSON