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Whit Stillman Quotes

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

Whit Stillman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1952

Topics

Love Writing Start You Way Point

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.

Max Keiser

Finance Financial London Fraud Here

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Tracy Chapman

Control Process Feel Creating Like

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Tracy Morgan

Bird Cool Strong Powerful Sharks

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Joseph Kosinski

You Know Want Director Scary Then

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert

Young Old Vices Passions

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

World Become Human She Human Being

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

China Mieville

Wisdom Think Learn Remember Wrong

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

People Nuts Line Fine Just Rut

My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.

Chrissy Metz

Father People Want Real Scary Big

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Courteney Cox

Humor Snob Just Am

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

Bradley Walsh

Job Tools Over Years Piano Playing

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Bobby Vinton

Change Time Look Said Deserve Tires