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.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

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

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Castle

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

  

  G-Eazy
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Eyes

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

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Truth
  • Demand
  • Half

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

  

  Don Gibson
  • Up
  • Long
  • Discussion

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Age
  • Past

• Heartbreak is the best motivation.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • motivation
  • Heartbreak

• 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.

  

  David Jenkins
  • Study
  • Cholesterol
  • Dietary

• If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Persons
  • Commit
  • Iron

• It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Rhythm

• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Design
  • Cutting
  • Planning

• The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • World
  • Guy

• The party is on my birthday, June 21 - my 21st on the 21st, which is Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year and the longest night for a lot of people who are helping to organize it. My father very kindly suggested having a party, although he's probably regretting it now.

  

  Prince William
  • People
  • Father
  • Night

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

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Game
  • Players
  • Tell

• 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