Westward Movement Quotes & Sayings

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them. — Paul Rankin

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD. — Rob Lowe

Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are. — Taylor Swift

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel. — Kevin Costner

I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college. — Brendan Dooling