Jon Favreau Quotes
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
Quotes to Explore
-
The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
-
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
-
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
-
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
-
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
-
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
-
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
-
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
-
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
-
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
-
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
-
There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
-
The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
-
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
-
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
-
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.
-
For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
-
I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.
-
Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
-
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
