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Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.

Kathleen Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 5, 1953

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Home Morning Night Wake Up Thought

My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.

Jess Walter

Work Live House Desk Over Side

The media's job is to question a premise.

Joey Skaggs

Job Media Question Premise

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Jennifer McMahon

Character Me Writing Start Voice

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Maurice Sendak

Music Always Pieces Books Attached

I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.

Maura Tierney

Marriage Think Difficult Infidelity

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

Nature Man Own Disgust Leaves His

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Tom Douglas

Home Time King Sweet World Pig

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

Roger McGuinn

Learning Computers Internet Early Up

My brother's a blast to direct; he's one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he's in, and we're pals.

Ron Howard

Great Brother Who He Direct Much

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

Mira Nair

Glasses Rich Think You Poor Thirty

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

Jay IDK

Good School Writing Always Even Had

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

Chloe Sevigny

Money Job House Know Milk My Own