Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Lawrence Bender

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Miriam Toews

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

John Fairchild

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

Rosemary Mahoney

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

Orison Swett Marden

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

Kerry Condon

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Nastassia Alcius

When they make runs and you don't make a run, then they make another run; by the time you make your run, it's kind of exhausting to get back in the game.

Jaromir Jagr

It is awfully exhausting and devastating. This is sport and sometimes it simply does not work.

Charlie Hunnam

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

Ishmael Beah

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.