Jehane Noujaim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
Wallace Shawn -
Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
J. R. Smith -
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso -
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
Campbell Scott -
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
Aaron Ciechanover -
Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
Nathan Fillion
-
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I want to be a major force.
Zac Posen -
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
-
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
Sam Shepard -
You don't get second chances in the real world.
Gail Simmons -
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
Maeve Binchy -
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie -
Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
Pat Robertson -
I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
Eddie Murphy
-
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
Frank McCourt -
If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
Mike Posner -
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
Bruce Lee -
It's important in any project to remain focused.
Jehane Noujaim