Jeff Giles Quotes

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Start
  • Innovation
  • Drug

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Sun

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Big
  • Sounds

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Some
  • Allah
  • Debates

• The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Up
  • Small
  • Find

• When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Always
  • Crime

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Poetry

• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Best
  • Ballet
  • Dancing

• Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Theater
  • Musical

• Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Life
  • Live

• My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Up
  • Tree

• I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

  

  Claude Williams
  • Good
  • Long

• I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Music
  • Dance

• By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

  

  Jeff Giles