Jon Watts Quotes

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

Jon Watts

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As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.

John David Washington

FatherBusinessFootballPeopleMe

I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.

Roseanne Barr

TruthThinkComedyFriendsPersonal

Accepting your body and body image is very important, because there are images that are put out in the media and in your face every day that you need to look this certain kind of way, that it's gonna take you far in life.

Michelle Carter

LifeDayFaceMediaBodyLook

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

Joshua Waitzkin

PositiveChildrenPeopleWinWinner

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Cornelia Parker

JoyAnxietyYouKnowOppositeBeen

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

Bram Cohen

PeopleWantWayNextReleaseGoing

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.

Bob Weir

HomeMusicTimeGratefulListening

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

William Jay

FriendSweetSolitudeSayPleasure

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

William Shakespeare

WomanI AmHopelessAlasAm

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

TimeFeelSameEnemiesResentment

My love of entertaining and cooking truly came from traveling.

Tiffani Thiessen

LoveCookingEntertainingTraveling

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.

Noelle Stevenson

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