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Meg Cabot Quotes

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Meg Cabot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1967

Topics

Good Words Writing Chance End You

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.

John Burroughs

Country Strange Will Old Always Out

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

John P. Kotter

Change Competition Slow Speed Down

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

Sad Moment Door Blessed Comfort

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Rob Sheffield

Boss Comedy Rock She Watching Here

If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'

Demetrious Johnson

Walk People Fighting Why Up Beat

I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started, I didn't pick my first film. I was picked to do it, and it happened to be a horror film.

Christopher Young

Think Career Horror Become First

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Cheryl Hines

Me Laugh Comedy Seeing Talk Him

'Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me.

Anupam Kher

Opportunity Me Golden Silver Proved

I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

Shaun White

Brand You Without Things Being Able

I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.

Tom Brady

Coffee Never Anything Just Tried

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

Work Happiness Brave Enough Person

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Thomas Friedman

Research Face-To-Face Reporting