John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes

Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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  • Always
  • Might

• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Hip Hop
  • Vehicle

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
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• Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

  

  Eden Robinson
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• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
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• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
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• I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Believe
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• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

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  • Time
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• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
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• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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  • Easy
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• Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

  

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• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

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• In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

  

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  • Love
  • Art

• I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

  

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  

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  • Live
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• Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Life
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  • Fastidious