Jill Soloway Quotes

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

Jill Soloway

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I think everything that happens, happens for a reason.

Jimmy Garoppolo

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Swinging a gold club is sort of a throwing action, and even as a kid, I could throw things far and fast.

Jimmy Walker

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I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Jessica Williams

GreatThinkComedyYouFeelingWay

Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to advance exploration.

John M. Grunsfeld

SmallOpportunitiesHelpExploration

Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.

Michael Frome

NatureFreedomExperienceProblems

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

SchoolPeopleHigh SchoolRunHigh

As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.

Rob Lowe

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I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

Michael Schultz

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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

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My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.

Divyanka Tripathi

TodayI AmSupportParentsFearless

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

Dido Armstrong

MeSingingRoadInterestingDown

When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever.

David Slade

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