Dani Shapiro Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Actor
  • Comfort
  • Director

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Barefoot

• Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Anniversary

• I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Years
  • Protection

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• No one needs anything; they have to want it.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Anything

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• I have a bone to pick with Fate

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Destiny
  • Fate
  • Bones

• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Moving
  • Environment
  • Appreciate

• Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Films

• In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Religion

• I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writer
  • Possible
  • Knew