Irwin Winkler Quotes

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

Irwin Winkler

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• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
  • Students

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • You
  • Living

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Honor
  • Gold
  • Dignities

• Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

  

  Brian Koslow
  • Trust

• I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Record
  • Widow

• I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Couple

• And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • War
  • Guy