Whit Stillman Quotes

I think that, in terms of mainstream storytelling, the rebel gets off way too easy. We're way too hard on the insiders and way too soft on the outsiders.

Whit Stillman

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ThinkEasyRebelWayStorytelling

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Jenna Morasca

TimeCaringCareTake CareSomeone

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

Melissa Rosenberg

MeWritingWorldEatingSandwich

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

John Wooden

GoodPracticeGameThinkTrying

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

Stanley Smith Stevens

MeasureEstimationDirectSensation

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

Tony Shalhoub

WorkFamilyFatherBusinessManOut

I've always felt that I was a star. I always knew that I am a star.

Rose Namajunas

I AmAlwaysStarKnewFeltAm

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

Robert Wilson

NewImportantSomethingTraditional

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

Joshua Lederberg

WorkSchoolReadingQuestionsBack

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Jason Robert Brown

PeopleThinkLaughComedyYouDrama

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Josh Fox

HistoryEnvironmentalStoryGreatest

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

Bruce Jay Friedman

FriendBe KindManUnderstandingGo

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Sylvester Stallone

MeYouSayWouldBetweenContest

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