Stephen Chbosky Quotes

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

Stephen Chbosky

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LoveDayProcessWriteRightSee

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

John Legend

LifeMy OwnWriteAlwaysOwnThings

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

WorkPoliceComputersGunHelpWay

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Jeff Daniels

ActionEmotionHumanAnythingReally

I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

Simone Biles

NextBoltMichael

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Michael Shanks

ExperienceWalkHappyPossibilities

If there was one last thing I could do in my life, it would be to help Dilma turn this country around, with the decency that the Brazilian public deserves.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

LifeMy LifeHelpCountryTurnLast

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Jonathan Safran Foer

PowerFarmMoreReasonIndustry

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Deborah Moggach

AlonePeopleWorldFeelWantBooks

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

Anthony Carmona

MotherDreamsShoesResponsibility

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

HeartAngerHatredHeadAffair

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy.

Scott Adsit

FutureCityThinkThoughtComedy

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Tina Fey

WorkGreatMyselfDaySelfishSkin

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