Evan Daugherty Quotes

'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.

Evan Daugherty

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• When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

  

  Denis Johnson
  • Writing
  • American

• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Mind
  • Style
  • Forward

• I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Thinking
  • Mistake
  • Grows

• That’s because they don’t know. It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Religion
  • Theory
  • Economics

• My wife told me, "Listen, you have to do something big, beautiful story." I remember that I read The Shack script and I told her that there is a big message over here, and as a Jew, I read the script, and I didn't see anything that connects to religion. It's not about religion, it's about faith, it's about God, and I connected with it, because from my point of view, there is God in this world.

  

  Aviv Alush
  • Religion
  • View
  • Script

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Team

• In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Disappointment

• Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

  

  Joel Hodgson
  • Culture

• Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Conversation

• Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Cold
  • Company
  • Firsts

• Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Chance
  • Genius
  • Writer

• The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Example
  • Tedious

• Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

  

  Len Wein
  • Done
  • Stuff
  • I Think

• Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Voice
  • Field
  • Ruin

• When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Sing
  • Slaves
  • Cotton

• I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Rewards

• 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Film School