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I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
~ Jenny Agutter
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.
~ Simon Blackburn
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
~ Terri Windling
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
~ Sid Meier
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
~ Mark Haddon
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.
~ Murray Bookchin
A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.
~ John H. McWhorter
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.
~ Heinz Fischer
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.
~ George Washington
I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.
~ David Icke
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
~ Barack Obama
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
~ Sara Sheridan
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
~ Spike Lee
The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
~ Buzz Aldrin
In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.
~ Billy Lawrence
We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.
~ Edward Kennedy
Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.
~ Bob Etheridge
I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.
~ Daniel Dennett
No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.
~ Hillary Clinton
I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.
~ Thomas Jane