Philip Zacharia Quotes & Sayings

I think diversity in television is important. It's not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity. — Aisha Tyler

It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think ... nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself ... no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible. — Sanya Richards-Ross

Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them. — R.A. Salvatore

Writing is a form of self-flagellation. — William Styron

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own. — Alejandro Zambra

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. — Richard Linklater

version of Amber. — Traci Hohenstein

She would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched. — Bernice L. McFadden

Just because you made it warm doesn't make it yours — Amelia Gray

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. — Duke Ellington

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old. — Philip Rivers

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. — Danielle Steel