Jesse Kellerman Quotes

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

Jesse Kellerman

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ParentsMeGrowing UpLegacyGrowing

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

Joan Cusack

WorkLoveOpportunityBetterShort

That's all you ever want - to do your job well enough that people on the other end are happy.

Megan Mullally

JobHappyPeopleEndEnoughYou

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

Jeff Sessions

BlackThinkProblemMatterReal

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

Michael J. Massimino

RisksSpaceThinkRiskSomething

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

BusinessSchoolWarmYouBodyNeed

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.

Ama Ata Aidoo

LifeDreamsPeopleFindAfricaHere

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

Tony Kushner

WritingStartThinkYouDownTeach

I'm scared of a lot of things.

Rita Ora

ScaredThingsLot

I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.

Mike Rogers

MeSuitsLookBadBackNumbers

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

Molly Shannon

GoodJobMeThinkBetterFeel

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

Lucinda Williams

BestPeopleTrySeeThingsGet

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

Doug Collins

ThinkBetterYouLookSometimesGuy

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