Jeff Nichols Quotes

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

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• I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Attention
  • Amazing
  • Body

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Think
  • Insurance

• My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Job
  • Best
  • Focus

• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Ancient
  • Bloody
  • Haunted

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Best
  • Period

• We all have the right to comment about each other.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Right
  • Other
  • Comment

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Greatest

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Long
  • Free
  • Desire

• My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Mom

• What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Democracy
  • Danger
  • ERA

• The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Broken
  • Promise

• From the things I've read, I think I've been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don't put an effort into winning. I think that's completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Effort
  • Winning

• Everybody has always put this on me, this label, that I'm not a very good defensive catcher. To me, I don't see it that way.

  

  Steve Clevenger
  • Label
  • Defensive
  • Catcher

• I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

  

  Jeff Nichols