David Berman Quotes

We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

David Berman

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• Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • You
  • Speed

• Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Look

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Growth
  • Unique
  • Promise

• The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • Wife

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Respect

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Day
  • Only

• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Sister

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

  

  Halsey
  • Fan
  • Provocative
  • Candid

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Time
  • Money
  • Change

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Great
  • Rather
  • Renaissance

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Inspiration
  • Secret
  • Patience

• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Actions

• Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • School
  • Africa
  • Secondary

• And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Study
  • Conflict

• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  

  David Berman
  • Technology
  • Style
  • Democracy