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.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
Jacky Ickx
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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.
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.
Paula Yates
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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?
Jesse Schell
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If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'
Marcus Samuelsson
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I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.
Pete Davidson
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Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.
Jessie Buckley
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir
