Esther Renay Dean (Ester Dean) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
-
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
-
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
-
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
-
I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
-
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
-
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
-
I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
-
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
-
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
-
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
-
To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
-
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
-
For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
-
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
-
The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
-
Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
-
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
-
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
-
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
-
I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.
-
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
-
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
-
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
