Jay Roach Quotes

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

Jay Roach

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• What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Find

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Doing
  • Audience

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Very
  • Dating
  • Whole

• I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Respect
  • Cool
  • Radio

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • You
  • Chance

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Hate

• There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Real

• The stars are silent.Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow.There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Poetry

• I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

  

  Elias Koteas
  • Alone

• Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Reality is being itself. - It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the 'isness' of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning - having freedom in its primary sense - not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Mind
  • Children

• We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Why
  • Intention
  • Sitting

• I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

  

  Jay Roach