Jim Coleman Quotes

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Lawyer

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Aesthetic

• The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Value
  • Artist

• Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Simple
  • Leaving
  • Logic

• It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Life
  • Book
  • Story

• I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Grief

• There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • City
  • Taken

• You can’t contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Women
  • Running

• Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Done

• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Violence

• Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Serious

• Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

  

  Chris Buck
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• It got me more recognition from the record labels and more independent artists started to reach out and tried to look to me for guidance to help them out.

  

  Dallas Michael John Albert Green Alexisonfire
  • Help
  • Record
  • Artists

• I wanted to end myself at lunchtime but we came back nicely. It was costly but I found the best way to get back.

  

  Andre Nel
  • Way
  • Back

• All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

  

  Steven Saylor
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Exploration

• Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

  

  Jim Coleman