Brilliant Quotes - Page 39

• Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

  Patrick Marber

  Writing, Years, Lucky

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

  Samantha Morton

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

  Scott McCloud

  Community, Scene, Comic

  "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Believe, India

  4 Copy quote

• The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

  Sandra Oh

  Boys, Years, Careers

  5 Copy quote

• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Eight, Wind

  6 Copy quote

• There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

  Martha Plimpton

  Television, Right Now

  4 Copy quote

• Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

  Alexandra Roach

  Volume

  4 Copy quote

• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Kissing, Intelligent, Years

  6 Copy quote

• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Military, Independent, Media

  7 Copy quote

• And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

  Josh Radnor

  Running, Believe, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Ideas, Live Theatre, Lovely

  6 Copy quote

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  Larry Sabato

  Rights, Design, Republic

  7 Copy quote

• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Trying, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Inspired, Wonderful, Keynes

  4 Copy quote

• Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.

  Juno Temple

  People, Doe, Hardest

  "Juno Temple Talks HORNS, SIN CITY 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at Sundance" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

  Linda Sunshine

  Women, Thinking, Gossip

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.84, Crown Archetype

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Media, Different

  "Grant Morrison Talks DC Comics, Being a Rock Star in the Comics World, and His Take on Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Multiversity" by Christina Radish, collider.com. May 14, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.

  Joe Manganiello

  Teacher, Kids, Artist

  4 Copy quote

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  Tamara Mellon

  Men, Would Be, Tough

  "Tamara Mellon's New York Life" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Average, Tunes

  9 Copy quote

• Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Book, Writing

  4 Copy quote