John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes

Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman

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• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Surround Yourself

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• I fight fairly, and in good faith.

  

  Edmond About
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Fight

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

• I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Training
  • Start
  • Skill

• My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

  

  Warren G
  • Family
  • Business
  • Gay

• I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Never

• And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Think
  • Said
  • Stand

• All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • World
  • Jesus

• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• Most businesses believe regulators intend to fine them rather than help them protect their workers. Serious violations should bring real consequences, but minor violations should only incur warnings that encourage compliance.

  

  James Lankford
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Help

• I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

  

  John Dingell
  • Real

• I've made a lot of game-winners.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Made
  • Lot

• I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Life

• Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Real
  • Process
  • Show