Simon Kinberg (Simon David Kinberg) Quotes

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

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• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Support
  • Training
  • Security

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
  • Treat

• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Young
  • Foolish
  • Arrogant

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• Where music leads, I follow.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Music

• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Today
  • Worry

• I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Great
  • Control
  • Dance

• People would ask me, 'what do you want to be when you're older?' and I'd be like, 'a singer', and they'd be like, 'what do you really want to be?' and I'd be like, 'oh, I really want to be a singer.'

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People

• I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I was writing a contemporary take on Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, but with a guy driving a Bus load of tourists.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Writing
  • Vision
  • Christ

• When Nick At Nite is showing George Lopez, it's not doing what I'm thinking. But yes, I even write in the book about how MeTV went to Vince Gilligan and had him present an evening of his favorite television. So it can be done, but I think it can be done on a really large scale. The television of Dennis Potter, most of it hasn't been seen in this country. And that's just one example - it's a very obscure example. There's plenty of great TV out there. There's more crap - but there's great TV, too.

  

  David Bianculli
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Country

• When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Writing
  • Disappear
  • Script