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James Thurber Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

Topics

Future Past Present Sound Old Guess

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

Story Sometimes Just Idea Expense

I'm actually improving.

Improving Actually

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Intelligence Genius Will Happen

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

John Shelby Spong

Women Live Children Water Walk Men

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Live Me Story Find Know Kind

The role of a modern studio chief is much different to how the old studio chiefs used to operate. It's not so much a position of power anymore, but a position of influence.

Power Influence Old Modern Role

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

You Nobody Will Mantra Tell Own

I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.

Christopher Guest

Life Business Someone Never Outside

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

God Trust I Can Go Nothing Our

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Moon Better Problem You Why Try

I never started doing the videos because I thought they were going to get millions of views. I started doing them because I was at home, and I was bored.

Home Thought Doing Never Bored Get

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Life Time Better Long You Trouble

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