Michael Showalter Quotes

I calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when the deadline rolled around. Though completely unwritten, I was very impressed with how long my first draft would be.

Michael Showalter

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• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

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• 'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  

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• London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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• For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

  

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• The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

  

  David Gill

• A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

  

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• You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

  

  Ellis Peters
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• After a long discussion with Mr. Holmes, we finally wound up with, I think, an agreement which will satisfy all parties.

  

  Don Gibson
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• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  

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• Heartbreak is the best motivation.

  

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  

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• This study is exciting because it shows an effective dietary approach to lowering cholesterol isn't as hard or as intimidating as we previously thought.

  

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Work
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• I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

  

  Aleksandra Mir
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  • Media
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• Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

  

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• And sometimes I have to tell the players: It's a game—it's sport.

  

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• The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.

  

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• I calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when the deadline rolled around. Though completely unwritten, I was very impressed with how long my first draft would be.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Deadline
  • Impressed
  • Unwritten