Johnny Van Zant Quotes

Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.

Johnny Van Zant

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So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Jill Soloway

StoryMoreNeedDirectorThanMany

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Jessica Savitch

GoodFirePeopleHotelBadNews

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.

Michael Arndt

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When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

John Schnatter

ThinkYouHouseNiceCompanyOut

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Joseph Brodsky

WordsSocietyPotentialListenOwn

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

Christopher Guest

PeopleMeSomethingGuessAbout

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Christopher Hitchens

WarLiarPeopleLessonForgetFirst

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Colm Keaveney

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Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

Bradley Chicho

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I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

Bob Edwards

ThinkDoingImportantRightJudgment

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

Scott Adsit

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In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

Mark Burnett

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