David Green Quotes

It's so easy to make things complicated in business.

David Green

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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Important
  • Money
  • Day

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Understand

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Help
  • Luck
  • Dumb

• I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Genuine

• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Single
  • Sex
  • Kiss

• Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Wonder
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Job
  • First
  • Writer

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Fun

• They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Courage
  • Optimism
  • Tales

• Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Future
  • Political

• Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Firsts

• The core businesses are transforming in very futuristic ways. You know, our aviation business, very interesting things are going on, and unmanned vehicles, drone technology, and things like that.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• It's so easy to make things complicated in business.

  

  David Green
  • Business