Nicholas Stoller Quotes
And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.Nicholas Stoller
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
Walter Cronkite -
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Ralph Fiennes -
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran -
We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
Ramez Naam
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
Edmund White -
In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
Pankaj Mishra -
What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
Pankaj Patel -
I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
Laura Haddock -
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
Zadie Smith
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
Felix Dennis -
There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.
Samuel Beckett -
I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.
Bonnie McKee -
It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.
Pope Benedict XVI -
The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.
Masayoshi Son -
We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.
Andris Nelsons
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There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.
Elsa Lanchester -
I wanted to write for Broadway.
Cynthia Weil -
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
Edward Abbey -
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Francesco Guicciardini -
And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.
Nicholas Stoller