Deborah Moggach Quotes
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
-
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
-
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
-
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
-
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
-
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
-
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
-
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
-
I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
-
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
-
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
-
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
-
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
-
A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
-
I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.
-
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
-
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
-
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
-
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
-
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
