Joe Eszterhas Quotes

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Joe Eszterhas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: November 23, 1944

Topics

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My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you're living in the hood, you don't live this life where you're crying every day, downtrodden every day.

John Singleton

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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

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All of our problems start in our minds.

Joyce Meyer

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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

Chris Lilley

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I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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I've been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn't very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn't just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.

Arjen Robben

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I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

Ali Larter

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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

Alice Hamilton

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Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Susan Rice

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At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

Peter Stone

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If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Tim Vine

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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Linn Ullmann

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