Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

Barry Sonnenfeld

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StarsDayNervousOne DayOutBig

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly

GoodYourselfMovingWritingThrive

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveBeautifulDayActionYouMean

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Michael Caine

UpScreenThoughHeAroundFinest

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

John Roos

SkillsRunningThoseTranslate

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Desmond Dekker

LifeMeSomeoneTalkingEveryday

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

Debi Thomas

LifeBestMeMy LifeMessed UpJump

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Cindy Sheehan

LoveChildrenResponsibilityDayWay

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

Ashton Kutcher

CreativePeopleGoalBuildEmbrace

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows

FamilyFatherChildrenCityEarly

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.

Alistair Horne

TimeReflectionBossLonelySerious

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

TimeOverEnemiesLoversWellCome

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

Tim Schafer

PeopleIdeasYouCheapYourLearned

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