Beversluis Steamboat Quotes & Sayings

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. — Og Mandino

I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination. — Zadie Smith

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context. — Antony Beevor

I think a true writer takes whatever time he or she needs to get a poem or story or book right. If you want to be a storyteller, take the time to get it right. — DeWanna Pace

I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world. — Bocafloja

She deferred to her partner, to the virtuoso hands of Gwen Shanks, freaky-big, fluid as a couple of tide-pool dwellers, cabled like the Golden Gate Bridge. — Michael Chabon

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. — Steven Weber

Writers of memoir are storytellers, and the point of a personal story is to make a truth that resonates for you, that closes the experience around a narrative and brings it to completion. — Lisa Dale Norton

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.' — Rob Thomas

The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile. — Ving Rhames

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience. — Michael Schur

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? — Denise Hunter

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter