Jeffrey Wright quote: "I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation."

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it....
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles becaus...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

He has such an incredible range, ... He can be very, very subtle or he can be explosive, depending o...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

[Young men hold their children. Grown-ups clap and chortle at first downs, the most joyous noises th...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

It will revolutionize the approach and the underwriting of satellite risks. This is not about offeri...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

It's a modernized version of Julius Caesar. It was originally set in Chicago, but we've moved the lo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers t...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

He discovered he had a remarkable singing voice.
JEFFREY WRIGHT

The drink is in the category called the caffeinated malt beverage category.
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Basquiat -- Story of Graffiti Artist Basquiat,
JEFFREY WRIGHT

But their friendship and relationship was so clearly drawn on Jim's part, I was just playing the mus...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

I never travel without my sketch book.
IAN WRIGHT

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
IAN WRIGHT

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
ORVILLE WRIGHT

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
BONNIE WRIGHT

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
ORVILLE WRIGHT

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing n...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
ORVILLE WRIGHT

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the ...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
ORVILLE WRIGHT

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult ma...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. ...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, ...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few sec...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would har...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until releas...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reach...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT

The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

It's frustrating. You fight hard out there and you lose by one point or three points. We've been in ...
AKEEM WRIGHT

I took it upon myself to shut him down. I wanted to make him work for it. (Coach Wooldridge) decided...
AKEEM WRIGHT

It's frustrating because we fight hard to win these games because we're in there, but we can't close...
AKEEM WRIGHT

We turned it on in the second half. We turned around and played like we played at KU. This is how we...
AKEEM WRIGHT

Coach told us to take it one possession at a time, get some defensive rebounds, come down on offense...
AKEEM WRIGHT

They are going to be tough to beat. They have a good guard in Richard Roby, and they have a lot of g...
AKEEM WRIGHT

They are playing well. I know they are feeling confident, but we have won our last three games, too,...
AKEEM WRIGHT

We would rather play twice a week, but we put everything we had into the Missouri game, so it was go...
AKEEM WRIGHT

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a...
EDGAR WRIGHT

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brillianc...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you hav...
EDGAR WRIGHT

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulato...
EDGAR WRIGHT

The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ult...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in...
EDGAR WRIGHT

We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the...
EDGAR WRIGHT

If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
EDGAR WRIGHT

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complac...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT

I WUV FOOD
~Bricks+Skittles+Oreos=MY LIFE~
DORTEA WRIGHT

You can buy business by selling below cost to drive new sales and a lot of time companies will do th...
ALAN WRIGHT

If they run a promotion and have a real low price, then that's going to lower in the whole area the ...
ALAN WRIGHT

You're competing against the guy across the street and so the market is set by the local competition...
ALAN WRIGHT

It was a poor match and a lot of the anglers who took part found it difficult to catch.
ALAN WRIGHT

Now I have received an invoice for the whole period from 2003 to date. Again my email was not answer...
ALAN WRIGHT

We continue to face logistical issues in getting fuel to Pilot Travel Centers and some short-term in...
ALAN WRIGHT

A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.
ALAN WRIGHT

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effe...
ALAN WRIGHT

It is unclear when refining capacity will be restored, but it is estimated these refineries will be ...
ALAN WRIGHT

Prices on the wholesale market have been up sharply the past several days. As a retailer, we have fi...
ALAN WRIGHT

Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unkn...
FRANCES WRIGHT

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
FRANCES WRIGHT

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
FRANCES WRIGHT

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...
FRANCES WRIGHT

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,...
FRANCES WRIGHT

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
FRANCES WRIGHT

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the...
FRANCES WRIGHT

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may a...
FRANCES WRIGHT

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights o...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
FRANCES WRIGHT

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at t...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong a...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
FRANCES WRIGHT

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, w...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no lon...
FRANCES WRIGHT

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all th...
FRANCES WRIGHT

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed ...
FRANCES WRIGHT

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your ...
FRANCES WRIGHT

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...
FRANCES WRIGHT

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.
ORVILLE WRIGHT

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT

If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either mak...
ROBERT WRIGHT

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they...
EVAN WRIGHT

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
RICHARD WRIGHT

I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his ...
N.T. WRIGHT

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
WILBUR WRIGHT

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock o...
CHARLES WRIGHT

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with ...
MICKEY WRIGHT

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engin...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels acros...
WILBUR WRIGHT

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you stra...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
STEPHEN WRIGHT

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
STEPHEN WRIGHT

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle mak...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
RONALD WRIGHT

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
STEPHEN WRIGHT

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
WILBUR WRIGHT

Even bitches can get a break in life.
SUZANNE WRIGHT

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the...
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and...
GARY WRIGHT

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit...
GARY WRIGHT

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power cou...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ...
JUDITH WRIGHT

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass...
JOE WRIGHT

In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality,...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to...
TERESA WRIGHT

If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money tha...
RICK WRIGHT

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers a...
GARY WRIGHT

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socia...
JUDITH WRIGHT

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how fa...
RICHARD WRIGHT

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
STEVEN WRIGHT

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
STEVEN WRIGHT

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
STEVEN WRIGHT

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be...
STEVEN WRIGHT

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its po...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
ROBIN WRIGHT

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
ROBIN WRIGHT

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I'm tired of biting my tongue.
ROBIN WRIGHT

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are i...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
ROBIN WRIGHT

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the s...
ROBIN WRIGHT

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
ROBIN WRIGHT

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variati...
ROBIN WRIGHT

I learned about men from my son.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

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I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

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