Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.
Terence Young
Recitation: by Male by Female
Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!
Jen Kirkman
GodEyesWordsBabyDoingLook
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.
John Patrick Shanley
MoneyWritingEyeRentWritePay
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.
John Slattery
HopeMoneyPeopleYouGoSee
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
Steven Soderbergh
WorldPortraitI CanMove OnStreet
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
Sigourney Weaver
HeartTimeMyselfPeopleNowGolden
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.
Trevor Paglen
PeopleFamousPlaceKindSecret
It is one thing to have quality and another to be a great player.
Julen Lopetegui
GreatQualityOne ThingPlayerThing
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
Don Willett
ParentingShortLongJudgingDays
The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
Colm Wilkinson
PatienceGreatPeopleStrongAlways
I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.
Brendan Iribe
SchoolBornSystemSchool System
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
AmbitionOthersDoesFeeds
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
Pete Hamill
StyleBeginningWritingThoughtBack
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