Dawn Ostroff Quotes

Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself.

Dawn Ostroff

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• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Violence
  • Alcohol
  • Impact

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Everyone is capable of everything.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Everyone
  • Capable

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Poet
  • Philosopher
  • Decide

• I have a very positive outlook.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Positive
  • Very
  • Outlook

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Mind
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feel

• War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Why
  • Nature

• Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

  

  Anthony Hecht
  • Children
  • Parents

• Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Life
  • Money
  • Father

• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Children

• I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself.

  

  Dawn Ostroff
  • Important
  • Trust
  • Yourself