Mayron Quotes & Sayings

Reading has as many functions as the human body, and ... not all of them are cerebral. — Anna Quindlen

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.' — Melanie Mayron

Focus is more valuable than IQ. — Robin Sharma

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame. — Melanie Mayron

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break. — Melanie Mayron

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. — Edward T. Hall

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women. — Melanie Mayron

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it. — Melanie Mayron

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home. — Melanie Mayron

The entire Mayron's Good Baby natural skin care line is free from synthetic fragrances, paraben, sodium lauryl sulfate, and DEA. It was a wonderful experience to work with my father on the creation of these natural products. — Melanie Mayron

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread — David Levithan

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences. — Edmund Phelps

I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misundertood.
Or victims of that manipulative force: Love.
Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Love puts the blame on the poor souls who succumb to it.
Love, that ultimate villainess. She makes examples of us all.
And yet we still come back for more.
We keep playing the role she gives us.
For one more chance to feel alive. — Karina Halle

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity. — Darell Hammond

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days. — Melanie Mayron

Thanks to you, my brother is eating tampons. — Adrienne Wilder

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think. — Melanie Mayron

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know. — Jeffrey Archer

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing. — Melanie Mayron

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally. — Melanie Mayron

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped. — Melanie Mayron

You are what you drive in L.A. — Melanie Mayron

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world. — Mark Schultz

Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood — Michael Connelly

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew. — Melanie Mayron

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. — David Hunt

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. — Melanie Mayron

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year. — Melanie Mayron

What we need are people who are capable [...] of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay. — Melanie Mayron

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts? — Melanie Mayron

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them. — Melanie Mayron