If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. Paul Simon Read Quote
It’s a privilege to do what I do for a living – to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it! Anne-Marie Duff Read Quote
I don’t reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn’t. It was a pipe dream. Sarah Hall Read Quote
If I ended up having a big name, I’m still going to keep that fire because that’s what just drives the great ones. Mike Daniels Read Quote
Wild Swans’ showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it’s not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them. Katie Leung Read Quote
We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we’re in. Gale Anne Hurd Read Quote
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. Jackie Kennedy Read Quote
The very phrase ‘Oscar night’ used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing – dating myself – it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films’ failure – once again – to be honored. Dick Cavett Read Quote
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin’s remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. Ellen Willis Read Quote
