Jeff Nichols Quotes
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.Jeff Nichols
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang -
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
Quavo Migos -
The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull -
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo -
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru -
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn -
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
Rachel Dratch -
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone -
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
Philip Treacy -
People are living vicariously through others, to be sure. As much as they hate it ... they get to live that through seeing it.
Leif Garrett -
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman -
I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
Zach Anner -
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
Sara Gilbert -
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
Jeff Nichols