Best Mayer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.”

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Author:John Tyndall

“Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.”

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Author:Lew Wasserman

“In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.”

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Author:Angela Lansbury

“I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.”

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Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.”

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Author:Hunter Hayes

“Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!”

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Author:Jackson Harris

“There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.”

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Author:Karina Longworth

“I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.”

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Author:Camila Cabello

“We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.”

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I listen to John Mayer when I get ready. He's my calmer.”

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Author:Gigi Hadid

“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”

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Author:Ed Koch

“I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.”

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Author:Lea Michele

“I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.”

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Author:Jessica Simpson

“I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.”

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Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.”

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Book:Take Me There

Source: Take Me There

“[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?”

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Author:Janet Evanovich

“But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.”

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Book:Waiting For You

Source: Waiting For You

“It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.”

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Book:Waiting For You

Source: Waiting For You

“I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.”

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Author:Jackie Cooper

“I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.”

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Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz

“Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.”

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Author:Van Heflin

“The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.”

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Author:James Rainwater

“I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.”

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Author:Esther Williams

“Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath”

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Author:Dorothea Lasky

“Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.”

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Author:Chuck Eddy

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”

“I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch