Marc Cherry Quotes

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

  

  Gale Norton
  • People
  • Birds
  • Plants

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• When did you last have fun being dignified?

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fun
  • You
  • Have Fun

• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • May
  • American
  • Body

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • American
  • Day

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • American

• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Age
  • Parents

• The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.

  

  Democritus
  • May

• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Spanish
  • Expects
  • Inquisition

• If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Facts
  • Realizing

• I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

  

  Marc Cherry
  • People
  • American
  • Fun