Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Quotes
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis -
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski -
The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
Flip Wilson -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
Floyd Skloot -
I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
Patricia Richardson
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
Viktor Vekselberg -
There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
Maisie Williams -
Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
Pallam Raju -
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
Olivier Martinez
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah -
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
Natalia Tena -
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
Daisaku Ikeda -
If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
Pat Cadigan -
Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
Orson Scott Card -
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
James D. Watson
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I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
Andrea Bocelli -
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
Nancy Cartwright -
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.
Raymond Williams -
I owe everything to my mom. She definitely got me to where I'm at today. Without her I wouldn't be able to do the things that I do. She and I are very close.
David Lambert -
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal