Drew Pomeranz Quotes

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• It was never my goal to be an actor.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Never
  • Goal
  • Actor

• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Best

• I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Want
  • Team
  • Soccer

• The future is now.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Future
  • Now

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Page

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • You
  • Listen

• I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Food

• There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Great
  • Profit

• I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Always
  • Anger
  • Turned

• You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • You
  • Dance

• I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Faith
  • Singing
  • Attitude

• I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • Job
  • Guy

• Every day, I'm learning new things about myself. Every day, I'm learning new things about life.

  

  Aquaria
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Myself

• I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Book
  • Story
  • Stage

• I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.

  

  Art Spiegelman
  • Up
  • Why

• He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

  

  Diogenes
  • Human
  • Daylight
  • Lamp

• If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

  

  Drew Pomeranz