Whit Stillman Quotes

I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.

Whit Stillman

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WritingStoryThinkSeeingFindTry

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home.

Jeffrey Wright

HomeDayCollegeReadingThink

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

Matthew Gray Gubler

DeathEndingFactsSearchDieYou

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Amy Sherald

ImaginationWorldYouRulesBend

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

Robert Fogel

FreedomTimePeopleWantWillMore

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?

Monica Johnson

GoalsGodYourselfLooking BackSick

My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.

Mindy Grossman

GodParentsMeFashionSaidGoing

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Jon Crosby

MusicPeopleMeNiceWhyUnderstand

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Dolly Parton

WorkMeWhiteTalkNashvilleHim

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

Drew Curtis

LifeGodMeEvilThank GodReal

It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.

Clive Cussler

LoveMineNeatI Love

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

Bonnie Bassler

SportsTeamAthleteKidEveryHuge

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Phil Hartman

ActingQuitBecauseHadDecided

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