“It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.” WayFightingFiguresMetsNormalAmbitionVolumeGood Taste Author:Ira Glass
“Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.” PeopleWishCreativeTasteGood TasteBeginnersCreative Work Author:Ira Glass
“For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.” GuyLosingTemperTemperance Author:James Gandolfini
“I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.” LittlesCharacterBitsSawsLittle BitAccomplishUselessTemperTemperanceRanting And Raving Author:James Gandolfini
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.” AbilityGainsCarefulBe CarefulCarried Away Author:Jay Gould
“German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.” PeopleKnowsBeautifulCertainSpeakSoundAttractiveAccentsHarshBeautiful WomenHebrew Author:Janeane Garofalo
“People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!” PeopleWorryOught Author:Jeff Garcia
“You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.” StillsRaceAccidentsLapClosing Author:Jeff Gordon
“There are certain times when you can maybe intimidate certain people to force them to make a mistake. There are other people you know that you've got to make a clean pass. I try to make clean passes. That's something that I've been doing since I was 7 years old and that's the way I like to do it. It doesn't mean I always do it that way, but that's the way I prefer to do it.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsMeanCertainForceMistakeCleanIntimidatingCleanliness Author:Jeff Gordon
