Nicholas Stoller Quotes

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Way
  • Looking

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Thoughts

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Control

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Way
  • Economic
  • Own

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Writing
  • Science

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Way
  • Reason

• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Writing

• If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Die
  • Like

• When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Transition

• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Letters
  • Leisure
  • Intervals

• When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Way