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Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
Riches make cowards of us ...
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.
— David Ayer
My mantra is "Better is better".
— David Ayer
Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
— David Ayer
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
— A.J. Ayer
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
— A.J. Ayer
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
— A.J. Ayer
Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.
— David Ayer
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
— A.J. Ayer
For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
— David Ayer
When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.
— David Ayer
Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
— A.J. Ayer
As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.
— David Ayer
Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
— James A. Haught
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
— David Ayer
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated
old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes
old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
— David Ayer
I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
— David Ayer
I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
— Joe Manganiello
It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.
— David Ayer
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
— A.J. Ayer
David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.
— Scott Eastwood
'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
— David Ayer
Character is the best security.
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
When one buys a pair of shoes, one is buying three things, the right shoe, the left shoe and the pair.
— A.J. Ayer
I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
— David Ayer
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
— A.J. Ayer
The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself.
— David Ayer
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
— A.J. Ayer
Character comes before scholarship.
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
— A.J. Ayer
Even logical positivists are capable of love.
— A.J. Ayer
To predict tomorrow's weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.
— A.J. Ayer
There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.
— Margaret Ayer Barnes