Nancy Meyers Quotes

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
  • Democratic
  • Tastes

• Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Find
  • Golf
  • Easy

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Think
  • Game
  • Air

• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Problem

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • High
  • Body
  • Diet

• I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Prize
  • Honoured
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • War

• When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Competition
  • Swimming

• The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • Time
  • School
  • Business

• I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • School
  • Head

• Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.

  

  Pauley Perrette
  • Support
  • Church

• I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • School
  • Job
  • College