John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.
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There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
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The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
