Akiva Goldsman Quotes

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Akiva Goldsman

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• Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Work
  • Game
  • Style

• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Bass
  • Drums

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Down

• My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Small

• A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Always
  • Lonely
  • Insect

• In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • New York

• The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Men
  • Color
  • Treat

• I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Sea
  • Resort
  • Skyscrapers

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Difficult
  • Skill
  • Obsession

• Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Future
  • Imagination
  • Key

• Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• What it has done is reaffirm to us we are running the campaign the right way. Grassroots campaigns win elections. That is what we have done and what we will continue to do.

  

  Zack Space
  • Done
  • Way
  • Running

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Career
  • Reality
  • Relationship

• I’ve wanted to go into space since childhood, and as I get older I’m increasingly inspired by the relationship between space and Earth. The more you learn about space, the more you understand how special Earth is as a planet and we need to be good stewards of our home spaceship because others are not easily accessible.

  

  George Whitesides
  • Earth
  • Relationship
  • Space

• As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Relationship
  • Object
  • Frivolous