Nicole Holofcener Quotes

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Nicole Holofcener

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• Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

  

  Randall Park
  • Audience
  • Kid
  • Against

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• If everything is the same, nothing is special.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Same
  • Nothing
  • Special

• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Problem

• I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Cute

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Sound

• If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Love
  • Why
  • Awards

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Live
  • Back
  • Intention

• I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Really
  • Pictures

• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Job

• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Options

• I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Star

• Small boys everywhere know that in a fight between Superman, James Bond and the Terminator, James Bond would win. Well, it's the same story in Star Wars. In a fight between the Enterprise, Stingray, Thunderbird 2 and the Millennium Falcon, the Falcon would reign supreme. It just would. The end.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Small
  • Star
  • Superman

• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Hollywood
  • Creative Process
  • Technology companies

• Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Life
  • Help
  • Understanding

• I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • School
  • Done
  • Rest

• Hollywood always likes to create a star.

  

  Nicole Holofcener
  • Star
  • Create
  • Hollywood