Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.

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• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Perfect

• I love people, and the hustle.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Love
  • Hustle

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Think
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learning

• 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

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Science
  • Words
  • Literature

• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Thought

• I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can't wait to share more originals in the future.

  

  Kygo
  • Work
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Travel
  • Engineering

• It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Helping
  • Able