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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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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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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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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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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The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.
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A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
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Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity?
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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.
