Steven Michael Quezadaun Quotes

I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

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• I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Hate
  • Memories
  • Trump

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• 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

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Name
  • Determined

• I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Free
  • First
  • Ever

• I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Try

• Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Emotional

• There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confidence

• After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Career
  • Law

• The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

  

  Om Malik
  • Society
  • Challenge
  • Philosophical

• Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Travel

• The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • History
  • Help

• You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Feeling

• I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.

  

  James Arness
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

  

  Nash Buckingham
  • Range
  • Shotgun
  • Retriever

• With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.

  

  Steven Michael Quezadaun
  • Writing
  • Successful
  • Sell