Don Was Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
-
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
-
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
-
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
-
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
-
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
-
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
-
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
-
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
-
It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
-
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
-
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
-
How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
-
A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?
-
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
-
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
-
Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.
