Erik Per Sullivan Quotes

When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.

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• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Mean
  • Thought
  • Go

• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movies
  • Writer
  • Employee

• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Thought
  • Husband

• I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Judge

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Always
  • Thought

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Thought

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Wife
  • Always
  • Thought

• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
  • Together

• I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Innovation

• Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Night

• I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Books

• Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Family
  • Help

• I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Community
  • Training

• Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Artist
  • Risk

• When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.

  

  Erik Per Sullivan
  • Thought
  • Movies
  • Something