Amy Landecker Quotes

Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • More
  • Medicine
  • Practicing

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Different
  • Circumstances

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Choose

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Yourself
  • Photography

• We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Morning
  • Same
  • Media

• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Forgotten

• A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Weird

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Smart
  • Being
  • Apologize

• Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

  

  Adria Arjona
  • Time
  • True

• Much rain wears the marble.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Rain
  • Marble

• Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.

  

  Amy Landecker
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