Sean Durkin Quotes

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

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• I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Help
  • Personal
  • Trainer

• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • End
  • Conversation

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Me
  • Mouth
  • Fat

• If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • You
  • Fat

• My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Funny
  • English
  • Voice

• Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Jokes

• I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Different
  • Know
  • Desire

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Insecurity
  • Hilarious

• Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.

  

  Usher
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Kid

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Healthy
  • Cute
  • Fault

• The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Changed

• I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Chance
  • Rewrite
  • Finoshed

• Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Draft
  • Rewrite

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Enough
  • Cities
  • Aim

• I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • Fat
  • Rewrite