Jane Clayson Quotes

I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.

Jane Clayson

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • You
  • Nice
  • Promise

• Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Business
  • Write
  • First

• It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • World
  • Work
  • Myself

• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Success
  • Enough
  • Encouragement

• In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Space
  • Opportunities

• Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Past

• I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Perfect
  • Progress
  • Canvas

• Shoot me in the chest.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Cool

• I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Hilarious

• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • World
  • Different

• A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

  

  James H. Boren
  • Up
  • Together
  • Wife

• If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Time
  • Friends
  • True

• I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Life
  • Glory
  • Coaster

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Drawing
  • Discovery
  • Lessons

• I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.

  

  Jane Clayson
  • Airplane