George Weinberg Quotes

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

George Weinberg

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• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Talent

• Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Story
  • Feet
  • Busy

• We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Why
  • Political
  • Change

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Vision
  • First
  • Filmmaking

• What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Indispensable
  • Presents

• 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Different
  • Song

• Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Job
  • Today

• The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Character

• You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Good
  • Light
  • Dark

• There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Good

• I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Church
  • Catholic

• I get a lot of advice from my dad about how I should be as a human being, but as an actor, I think he'll give me advice once I'm doing a film for him.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Dad
  • Advice

• When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Life
  • Business
  • Wish

• The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

  

  David Edwards
  • People
  • Women
  • Sad

• Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• (On H.P.B) Helena Petrovna Blavatsky And we, who lived around her, who in closest intimacy watched her day after day, we bear witness to the unselfish beauty of her life, the nobility of her character, and we lay at her feet our most reverent gratitude for knowledge gained, lives purified, strength developed.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life
  • Character
  • Knowledge

• One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Work
  • Art
  • Pay

• How to think about a problem: The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!

  

  Brand Blanshard
  • Problem
  • Develop
  • Consequences

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

  

  George Weinberg
  • Intimacy
  • Demand
  • Promote