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Jonah Peretti Quotes

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1974

Topics

Believe Stubborn Sometimes Loyal

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

Work Hard Work Yourself Work Hard

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Time Stupid Mystery You Down Try

I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!

School Waiting Me High School Back

I always said 'strength in stars.'

Strength Stars Said Always

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

Small Museums Things Wanted

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Character Great Imagination Writing

I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.

Stef Wertheimer

Time Busy Think Done Build Solar

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

Mistake Someone You Authority Right

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

Work Kind Inspired He Did Grant

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

Louis Farrakhan

Love Loved Describe Muhammad

I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.

Water Woman Me Proud Busy Feel

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

Christian Camargo

Simple Story Play Audience See Plus

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