Reese Hoffa (Maurice Antawn Chism) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
-
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
-
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
-
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
-
To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
-
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
-
I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
-
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
-
I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
-
'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
-
Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
-
Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
-
It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.
-
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
-
Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
-
When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.
-
Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
-
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
-
When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.
-
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
-
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
-
Being on 'House of Cards' really has given me so much more than just a job; the interactions I have had with real White House correspondents, other journalists and bloggers relating to my character Janine - and their thanking me for representing them - has been extraordinary.
-
I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
-
It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
