Bridget Carpenter Quotes
I had been emotionally affected by the story of Steven King, on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.
Bridget Carpenter
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
Hanna Rosin
At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
Vincent D'Onofrio
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
Viggo Mortensen
Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
Walter Benjamin
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
Isaac Asimov
The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.
Sam Harris
My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
Anthony de Mello
Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)
Aristophanes
Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
Prince
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
Nicole Kidman
To act is to rest.
Fernando Pessoa
The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
Ashton Kutcher
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus
Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
William Penn
I had been emotionally affected by the story of Steven King, on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.
Bridget Carpenter
