Marti Noxon Quotes

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

Marti Noxon

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • High
  • Guy

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Doing
  • Young
  • Wanted

• You're never going to learn everything.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Learn
  • Everything

• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Hollywood

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

  

  Yves Klein
  • World
  • Believe
  • Picture

• I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Career
  • Always
  • Been

• I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Understand

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Possible

• I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Strength

• I was born in New York in 1904.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Born
  • New
  • New York

• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I don't know how to back up.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Up

• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  

  Joe Theismann
  • Guy
  • Football

• Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Friends
  • Scene
  • Los Angeles

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

  

  Marti Noxon