Dave deBronkart Quotes

I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

Dave deBronkart

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• Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Film
  • Risk

• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Real
  • Food
  • Healthy

• When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Forever

• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • First
  • Innocence

• Parade magazine announces that 40 million Soviet men were killed between 1914 and 1945. The magazine’s headline reads ‘Short End of the Stick’. Because men died? No. The women were seen as getting the short end of the stick because they were stuck with factory and street-cleaner positions the men weren’t around to do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Friend
  • Cold

• Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

  

  Edward Albee
  • People
  • Character
  • Personality

• I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • Why
  • Freedom

• And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • People
  • Job
  • Mistake

• If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pretty

• People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know?

  

  Common
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

  

  Jim Doyle
  • Cutting

• Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Bible

• The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choices

• I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

  

  Dave deBronkart