John Sandford Quotes
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
Quotes to Explore
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.
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She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
