Graham Yost Quotes

I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.

Graham Yost

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 5, 1959

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Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

Jimmy Chin

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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

Jock Sturges

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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

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When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

Michael Hirst

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The music and movie business has been consistently wrong in its claims that new platforms and channels would be the end of its businesses. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market.

Steve Blank

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The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

Tomi Lahren

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The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.

Roger Ross Williams

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It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Roddy Doyle

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I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

Romola Garai

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Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

Juice Newton

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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Jay Griffiths

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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.

Johnny Van Zant

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