Jeff Nichols Quotes

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

Jeff Nichols

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I love how British guys dress for the cold.

Meghan Markle

LoveDressColdBritishHowGuys

The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

John McEnroe

ChampionshipOnlyAboutPrestige

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

Stephen Malkmus

MomentFocusThinkViewMediaYou

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

WorkArtPeopleUnderstandingLook

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LoveHistoryGreatPeopleResearch

You know I'm always in trouble.

Tony Yayo

YouTroubleKnowAlways

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FearReflectionI AmDownWallMore

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

LifeMusicMy LifeKindBackground

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Desiderius Erasmus

TalentConcealedRespects

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

Demi Moore

PaparazziAnnoyancePrivateIntensely

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Cher

DoingFloatingForeverAbleAround

Even perfection has room for improvement.

Ty Warner

ImprovementPerfectionRoomEven

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