Amy Landecker Quotes

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

Amy Landecker

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Growth
  • Years

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Humanity

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Reality
  • Understanding