Dede Gardner Quotes

Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Fear
  • Half
  • Satan

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Change
  • Human

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lay Down

• I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Believe

• We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

  

  Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
  • Live
  • Age
  • Blind

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.

  

  Dede Gardner
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