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
  • Drums
  • Bass

• 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

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• 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

• Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Wine
  • California

• 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
  • Coffee

• 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

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• 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

• Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Wonder

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Long
  • Mind

• The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.

  

  Hank Green
  • Person
  • Fame
  • April

• 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