Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

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• Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Time
  • Feelings
  • End

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Empowering

• If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Name

• We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Radio
  • Holocaust

• I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Jump
  • Surf

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • You
  • Strong
  • Sometimes

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Anxiety

• Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Teenager
  • Gym

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Society
  • Best
  • Child

• I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Want
  • Just

• Amid this life based on coercion, one and the same thought constantly emerged among different nations, namely, that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • People

• I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Sports

• When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Job