Matthew Weiner Quotes

I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

Matthew Weiner

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• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

  B. B. King
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Anybody

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Part
  • Final

• I fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Myself
  • Dressing
  • Fell

• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Romania

• I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Take
  • Where

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Perspective

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Vote
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Today

• Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Believe

• Such and so various are the tastes of men.

  

  Mark Akenside
  • Men

• I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Fearless

• November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Energy
  • Waiting

• Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Vision

• I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

  

  Rebecca Ferguson
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Listening

• I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

  

  Matthew Weiner