John Lee Hancock Quotes

For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

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• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Long
  • Money
  • Remember

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Women
  • Love
  • Hope

• I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Books
  • Read

• You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Think
  • Always
  • Romantic

• I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Never
  • Husband
  • Back

• 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Business
  • Bad
  • India

• Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• I find above all that the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Music
  • Art
  • Flying

• Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • People
  • World
  • College

• You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

  

  Eli Broad
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Growing
  • Research
  • Scientist

• For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

  

  John Lee Hancock