Jack O'Brien Quotes

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

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• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sick
  • Kitchen
  • Go

• The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Know

• I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mom

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • You
  • Liberty

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Learned
  • Trolls
  • I Have Learned

• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mother
  • Read
  • Cards

• Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Percent

• There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Computers
  • Typewriters
  • Guitar Playing

• I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.

  

  Carolyn Wheat
  • Character
  • Book
  • Read

• No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

  

  Selma Lagerlof
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Party

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Lifetime
  • Meeting
  • Mike