Dani Shapiro Quotes

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

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• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Wood

• We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Travel

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Job
  • American
  • Speak

• The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Job
  • Like
  • Fortunate

• The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Me

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Daily

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Job
  • House

• Go around - listen to how many times a day you say, 'I love' instead of, 'I hate.' Isn't it interesting that children, as they learn the process of language, always learn the word 'no' years before they learn the word 'yes'? Ask linguists where they hear it. Maybe if they heard more of 'I love, I love, I love' they'd hear it sooner and more often.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Hate

• Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

  

  Dorothy Allison

• Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Time
  • Society
  • Change

• Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Job

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only