Debra Winger Quotes

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Debra Winger

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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

  

  Orson Welles
  • American
  • Movies
  • Television

• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Together
  • Brother
  • Lit

• À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Lit

• How can anybody be enlightened?Truth is after all so poorly lit - Turn The Page (1987)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Truth
  • Lit

• I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

• I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

  

  Kate Leth

• My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • American
  • Father
  • Lit

• Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Lit

• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Lit

• I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Lit

• As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hope

• I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Writing
  • School
  • English

• The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  Alan Patrick Herbert
  • Time
  • Period
  • Breakfast

• A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Lit

• It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.

  

  Emma McLaughlin
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Library

• That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• I got my first break in 'Bhootnath,' solely on my credit, and went on to sing for around 20 films for all the leading music composers.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Music

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Lit