Miranda Leek Quotes
My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
-
Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
-
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
-
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
-
Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
-
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
-
Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
-
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
-
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
-
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
-
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
-
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
-
Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
-
I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
-
If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
-
The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
-
When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
-
...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
-
I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.
-
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
-
A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn't working, cut out stuff that isn't connecting to people.
-
What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
-
My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.
