Lawrence Wright Quotes

What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

TrustYourselfPeopleMeStoryYou

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

Jillian Michaels

PassionVisionPlanYouKnowNeed

We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'

Jochen Zeitz

SportsTogetherFashionPerformance

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

WorkGoodArtCreateSometimesTwo

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

Michael Arden

InspireSometimesDisasterIngenuity

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Amos Bronson Alcott

CommunicationDeepestMankindWho

I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.

Spike Jonze

ThreeSayMoreSeenGotBrothers

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Roxane Gay

Move OnWorstBearMoreHumanNext

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Mary J. Blige

GreatPainSufferingLookingDiet

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

Michael Keaton

ThoughtEnoughKnowSayWantUsed

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

Moby

Heroes

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Loni Anderson

ParentsSmokingUpBothChronicHad

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.

Dee Rees

DayMeIdeasStartEnoughDown

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