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
  • Crazy

• 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

• I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Long
  • Conscious
  • Concentrate

• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Men

• In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

  

  Alexander Payne

• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  

  William Langewiesche
  • Mind
  • Simple
  • Flying

• 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