Ann M. Martin Quotes

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

Ann M. Martin

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Snowflake

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Career
  • Being Pregnant

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Me
  • Process

• I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.

  

  David Harewood

• God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Good
  • God

• Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • Game
  • Team
  • Die

• President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

• Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects with no dream of anything, it was in my formatting when i got older and started talking to my friends about how I felt, they would be like, "dude, that's funny." Then one day my friend was like, "Dude, you don't understand how funny you are, you need to do standup"!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Dream
  • Growing
  • Needs

• If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Attention
  • Agent
  • Manuscripts