Winnie Holzman Quotes

Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.

Winnie Holzman

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• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Training
  • Exercise
  • Healthy

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Man
  • Leading

• It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Reality
  • Rock

• I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • World
  • Men
  • Love

• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Together
  • Wisdom
  • Religious

• That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • College

• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
  • Single
  • Amazing
  • Motherhood

• Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.

  

  Winnie Holzman
  • Writing
  • Pressure
  • TV