Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

• Writing
• Alone
• Sad
• Coffee
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• Bitterness

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I think a person has to just be herself.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Think
  • Just
  • Just Be

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Higher

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Know

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Value
  • Performance

• I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Singing

• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Problem

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• 'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Alone
  • Boy

• Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Sad