John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes

It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Pride
  • Fat

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.

  

  Karl Rove
  • House
  • Support
  • Party

• I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Believe
  • Society
  • I Believe

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Age
  • Lover
  • Comes

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• There is good and bad in everyone.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Profound

• I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trying
  • Serious
  • Social

• There are two options: adapt or die.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Die
  • Options
  • Adapt

• From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Dead
  • Captain
  • Sharks

• I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Reason
  • Writer
  • Writers

• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Democracy
  • Judging
  • Criticize

• Music is the healing force of the universe.

  

  Albert Ayler
  • Music
  • Force
  • Healing

• It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Knows
  • Writer
  • Adapt