Jean M. Auel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
-
I love Chicago.
-
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
-
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
-
Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
-
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
-
I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
-
We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
-
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
-
It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
-
Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
-
If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.
-
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
-
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-
My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
-
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
-
Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
-
Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
-
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
-
Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing.
-
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
-
I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.
-
I really fell in love with Africa.
