Denise Di Novi Quotes

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

Denise Di Novi

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• Passion
• Path
• Rejection
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• Dedication

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• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• 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

• I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Way
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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Ideal

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Driven

• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Age
  • Know
  • Start

• Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Always
  • Same
  • More

• It is my passion to direct movies.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Passion
  • Movies
  • Direct

• I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.

  

  Om Malik
  • Work
  • Writing

• I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

  

  James Wan
  • Long
  • Death

• The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

  

  Denise Di Novi
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Passion