Megan M. Duffy Quotes

I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.

Megan M. Duffy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Better
  • Trump

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Emotional

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Tolerant

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Control
  • Rest

• I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Money
  • Business
  • Small

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Writing
  • School
  • Kids

• By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Time
  • Involved
  • Got

• I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Hubris and science are incompatible.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Science

• Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country-Canada, Norway, Britain-has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do-as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that in an attempt to flush it down the drain forever.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Forever
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.

  

  Megan M. Duffy