John Hughes Quotes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

John Hughes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1950 - August 6, 2009

Topics

WorkDaySimpleJobFunAdvertising

The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.

Joe Morton

CharacterWorldYouKnowMoreYour

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

Matt Mullenweg

PeopleAmazingYouBuildNothingUp

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Jeff Raikes

BetterLearnYouBadResultsTeach

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

FunLawWritingEasyMoreAnswer

No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone.

Sukarno

AloneTimeMyselfReadingWantNeed

I'm very proud of The Rock.

Roddy Piper

ProudRockVery

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.

Roman Coppola

GreatShortYearNowMoreProject

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Mary Augusta Ward

ManMonopolyConscience

I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.

Molly Shannon

PlanMoviesBigLikeGrandSome

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Dennis Eckersley

CalmLearnYouDownBelongBig

We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

Dean Devlin

SuccessSurpriseIndependentOutWho

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CharacterExperienceStoryPersonal

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