Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Zoe Akins

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• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Necessarily

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Statistics

• Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Long
  • She
  • Bad

• I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Important
  • Partner

• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Long
  • Power
  • Violence

• Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Business

• I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Night
  • Trump
  • Presidential

• I think, sometimes with fans, what a lot of studios miss is it's just the gesture: it's the idea of knowing that they do matter, that we do care about what they think.

  

  Dave Filoni

• I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

  

  James Murphy
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Weird

• You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• Y’know we all have stuff that we do apart from a-ha – I have another band – and that kinda stuff sorta works for us.

  

  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Band
  • Stuff
  • Works

• Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Eye