Maggie Carey Quotes

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

Maggie Carey

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WritingStoryShortYouMeant To Be

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.

John Coltrane

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The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Mia Hamm

WinningPersonSaidNeverEverything

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

Stephen Hopkins

AudienceEmotionalFilmSophisticated

There's no reason that we need to be counting things and adding things up in order to sit down and eat a meal. I enjoy eating so much; I don't want to do match every time I eat. I guarantee you, maybe your diet soda has no calories, but it's still poison. We have to think about what are we putting in our mouths.

Rory Freedman

TimeEatingThinkDietEnjoyYou

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Matisyahu

HabitPeopleEasyHardAnything

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Lucy Liu

TryOtherDistinguishCharacters

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

Louis D. Brandeis

LifeHappinessOpportunityMenWill

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

Judi Dench

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I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When you work for a studio, they pay you a lot of money, but in exchange for that, they tell you what to do.

Jason Blum

WorkMoneyYouI CanPayTell

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Brenda Laurel

EnjoySkillsInteractionDelight

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

Bob Schieffer

PeopleStandCameraWantTryTalk

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Bob Iger

LoveChangeGoodPeopleStoryThink

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