Jerry Only Quotes

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Beach

• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Film
  • Tiger
  • Original

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Born

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Physical
  • E-mail
  • List

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Country
  • Real
  • Sometimes

• I think often that God is guiding me.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Future
  • Science

• Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • You

• In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • World
  • Real
  • Interesting

• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Water

• Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

  

  Jerry Only