Cameron Crowe Quotes

The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.

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• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Football

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Family
  • Amazing

• People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Time
  • Society
  • Black

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Feel
  • Diversity
  • Annoyed

• Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Anything
  • Joke
  • Butt

• One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Healthy

• Everyone's films have done well of late. So when your film doesn't do well, you ask yourself, 'Oh, did I make a wrong choice?' And I strongly feel that it's your choices that make a good career. The track record has to be good.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There was a time in our very recent history when it was “interesting” to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • History
  • Age

• The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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