Jon Feltheimer Quotes

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest rated shows.

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• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Prince
  • Realize
  • Go

• One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Home
  • Happy

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Popular
  • Matter
  • Start

• It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.

  

  Sam Dew
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Done
  • Single

• In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Family
  • Performance

• Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Imagination
  • Philosophical

• It is the American practice to present others as guilty wherever they are defeated. Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Funny
  • Present

• Like Thelma and Louise, Medicare and Social Security are headed for the cliff. And we are in the back seat.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

  

  Alec Issigonis
  • America
  • Car

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• When asked if he gets advice from other musicians, quoted in **Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Advice

• Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,Two lovers blow together like music blowing:And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea.Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them,They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Together
  • Wall

• Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Time
  • Wine

• In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang, and she was half out of her head. But very inspiring. And one day she said, "Take out a paper and pen and write something about peace." For some reason I wrote a poem on Noah - I don't know why I chose Noah - and it turned out it was for a contest for the UN. I ended up winning and reading the poem in front of the UN. I remember Mrs. Fried telling me, "When you write your first book, dedicate it to me." That was like, "Whoa."

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Why

• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Moving

• 'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest rated shows.

  

  Jon Feltheimer