Nicholas Stoller Quotes

Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

Nicholas Stoller

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• On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Change
  • Tried

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Resistance

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Innovation
  • Living

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

  

  Flume
  • Think
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • World
  • Inspired
  • Cultures

• I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Circumstances

• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Faith
  • Agree

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Living

• In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • May
  • New

• Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Cultures
  • Argentina

• I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • End

• So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • People
  • Head
  • Boiling

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Audience