Quotes About Observation

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.

I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

I want people to see what I can do. Not see what Steph can do or my dad can do and then assume that's what I do. I want them to actually watch me play and then decide who they think I am.

There aren't many players around who can organise the game from in front of the defence. You have to be fast, work hard and know how to read the game.

You can ask every coach from Ron Gardenhire to Dave Clark, anyone who has seen me play, they don't know why they say I'm a bad defender.