John Corabi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
-
I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
-
I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
-
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
-
Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
-
I really hate to write.
-
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
-
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
-
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
-
People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
-
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
-
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
-
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
-
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-
We can't change ourselves, it is Gods strength within us that makes the changes. We must do our part and God does His. What I tried to do myself is tiny compared to what God and I do together. He is the best partner I have ever had!
-
When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.
-
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
-
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
-
There's just some things you can't change.
