John Landgraf Quotes

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Damage
  • Treatment
  • Nor

• Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Give

• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Imagination
  • Doing
  • Sea

• Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Never

• I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Born
  • Camera
  • Naked

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Emotions

• Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Words
  • Deeds
  • Self-Reliance

• Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • God
  • Mind
  • Peace

• Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • People
  • Believe
  • Knows

• Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Eloquent

• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  

  Abraham Zaleznik
  • Influence
  • Leaders
  • Visionaries

• I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.

  

  John Landgraf