Hope Jahren Quotes

You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.

Hope Jahren

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EyesSunGraceYouPerfumeLucky

I've acted just to get to directing.

Mel Ferrer

GetJustDirectingActed

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

Jean Pigozzi

WorkGreatArtWalkYourselfMe

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Amy Pascal

SaidComplimentBeenMakeChick

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

Robbie Williams

MindMeWrongNowWantGoing

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Joyce Maynard

AdventureMeFriendsNot KnowingWay

'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

Dee Rees

SameDecadesStillFactIssuesWere

The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Chris Gethard

SadPeopleSickGoClownStay

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

Cindy Wilson

LoveGoodMenPeopleHarmonyRock

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

Clara Mamet

HomeSchoolParentsGoAlwaysBeen

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Brownie McGhee

PeopleMeLongFollowStayCause

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

Bruce Feiler

PositiveHappyResearchProblems

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

Arjun Kapoor

WorkYouSeeScreenCharactersDue

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