Paula Weishoff Quotes & Sayings

There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members. — Valerie Azlynn

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time. — Will Schwalbe

Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove. — Heather O'Neill

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves ... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash. — M.F.K. Fisher

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. — Jonny Greenwood

This wasn't about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen. — Victor LaValle

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable. — Champ Bailey

In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding. — Beeban Kidron

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci

It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind — Morrissey

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don't put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it. — Steve Maraboli

A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and he held his breath to let them pass: Jack was still sitting there, the tiller under his knee, the sheet in his hand, as though he had never moved, as though he were as immoveable as the Rock of Gibraltar and as unaffected by hunger, thirst, fatigue, or despondency. In this light he even looked rock-like, the moon picking out the salient of his nose and jaw and turning his broad shoulders and upper man into one massive block. He had in fact lost almost as much weight as a man can lose and live, and in the day his shrunken, bearded face with deep-sunk eyes was barely recognizable; but the moon showed the man unchanged. — Patrick O'Brian

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court. — Miguel Gomes

Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood — Groucho Marx