Akiva Goldsman Quotes

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

Akiva Goldsman

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• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Piano
  • Rock And Roll

• If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Story
  • Find
  • Scary

• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Dreams
  • Underdog

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Career
  • Deaf

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Great
  • Drawing
  • Feet

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Need

• I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Think
  • Write
  • Meant To Be

• I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Starting

• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Girl
  • Me

• Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Why
  • Responsibility
  • Common

• Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• 'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

  

  Neko Case
  • People
  • Up
  • Empathy

• To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

  

  Larry Elder
  • World
  • House
  • Opinion

• Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Up

• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Up
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!

  

  David Banner
  • Artists
  • Writers
  • Painters

• I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Value
  • Collaboration
  • Writers