Brian Shactman Quotes

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.

Brian Shactman

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LonelinessBestPastWelcomeSpring

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

Melissa Rosenberg

GirlScienceFunWritingProject

I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

Megan Shull

LoveTruthRideBikeAdventureMom

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Ann Druyan

ChildrenDayMeNightDieWant

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'

Amitava Kumar

GoodWifeMeThinkNameYou

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

Stacy London

LightYourselfImpactClothesYou

I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.

Steven Bauer

PeopleProblemYouHollywoodWay

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Roger Staubach

NervousGoingOwnerOnlyPartWreck

I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. They'll just look at me like, 'I know I know your voice, and I know I know your face.'

Rutina Wesley

MeVoiceFaceSomeoneLookKnow

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

Michael Keaton

YouKnowIt Is What It IsDefineHow

Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.

Liv Bruce

TimePlayMoreOnlyMelodyOur

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

LifeSpeakThinkingEndNowWay

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

MyselfWritingThinkDoingHappens

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