Manzaneros Quotes & Sayings

It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness. — Kate Morton

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one. — Jonathan Tropper

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession. — Wendy Kopp

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year. — Julie Delpy

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.' — Max Brooks

In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life. The important answers are not found inside, they are found outside. This perspective begins not within the autonomous self, but with the concrete circumstances in which you happen to be embedded. This perspective begins with an awareness that the world existed long before you and will last long after you, and that in the brief span of your life you have been thrown by fate, by history, by chance, by evolution, or by God into a specific place with specific problems and needs. Your job is to figure certain things out: What does this environment need in order to be made whole? What is it that needs repair? What tasks are lying around waiting to be performed? As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? — David Brooks

The only difference between those who are doing it and those who aren't doing it is that those who are doing it... are doing it! — Joel Comm

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again. — Lynda Barry

Tiffany's pale faced turned to green and I involuntarily took a step back, half expecting an Exorcist-style stream of vomit to shoot out of her gaping mouth. — Kim Harrington

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack. — John Cleese