Ari Graynor Quotes

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

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• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Try
  • Classic
  • Museums

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Mean
  • Actor
  • Along

• Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Soul

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• 'Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Drama

• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Always
  • Said
  • Inside

• I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Ireland
  • Audition

• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Game
  • Thought

• If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Time
  • Help
  • Doctors

• It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Relationship
  • Passion

• Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Team
  • Balance

• Stop spending money you don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • You
  • Stop

• I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • People
  • God

• The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Time
  • Space

• We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Men
  • Different

• My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

  

  Ari Graynor