People Quotes

• For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • Courage

• Some people do better on their own. I don't.

  

  George Peppard
  • People
  • Better
  • Own

• People are just not impressed by me at home.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Home
  • Impressed

• I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

  

  John Lasseter
  • People
  • Career

• I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • Thinking
  • Europe
  • Condescending

• I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.

  

  Valie Export
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Interesting

• A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Novel
  • Possibilities
  • Politely

• Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Passion
  • Vision
  • Talent

• I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

  

  Mona Sutphen
  • Found
  • Complaining
  • Behind

• Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • People
  • Religion
  • Errors

• One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

  

  Jill Flint
  • Purpose
  • Military
  • Clear

• There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • People
  • Different
  • Temptation

• I think that Republican analyst Steve Schmidt had a great line about Donald Trump, which is, Americans clearly voted for change , but they didn't vote for chaos. I think people are feeling unnerved all around the world, because they see a chaotic set of directions coming out of the White House, and they're not sure what it all means.

  

  Wendy Sherman
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Republican

• You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Choices

• Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

  

  Kevin Bleyer
  • People
  • Important

• I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People

• I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • People

• I'm making people that happy. How cool is that? That's my job.

  

  Ellen Marlow
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse. It's because you get older, your responsibilities are different. Now I'm taking care of children instead of being a child. It makes the world look scarier. That happens to everyone.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Writing

• I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • People
  • Shopping

• As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Job
  • Beginning

• People generally think of technology simply as a spur to start new businesses. But the Internet has also made it possible for more businesses to compete for any given opportunity.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

  

  Paul Scott
  • People
  • Want
  • Period

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