Nancy Meyers quote: "I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'"

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
NANCY MEYERS

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS

I really wanted to be a writer.
NANCY MEYERS

My movies are not messed with by the studios.
NANCY MEYERS

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
NANCY MEYERS

I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
NANCY MEYERS

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
NANCY MEYERS

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
NANCY MEYERS

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to ...
NANCY MEYERS

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's ch...
NANCY MEYERS

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the come...
SETH MEYERS

We'll eventually get down to your county. Over a six-year period, we'll hit every school district.
BRUCE MEYERS

The truck hit the car in the driver's side door. (She was) extricated from the car and taken to Heal...
BRUCE MEYERS

I was wounded myself. I lost all the officers in my company,
BRUCE MEYERS

I lost many friends, American and Korean. The British and Turkish are the ones I can think of right ...
BRUCE MEYERS

I started by myself. I wish I had someone to help me when I got started. Having someone who knows ho...
BRIAN MEYERS

It's a lot of work.
BRIAN MEYERS

It's a lot of fun and exciting. It's pretty much a challenge to control your nerves.
BRIAN MEYERS

It's addictive to go out and hunt deer, elk, antelope, turkey and bear.
BRIAN MEYERS

The pro shooters at national competitions are the best in the world.
BRIAN MEYERS

It's an adrenaline rush. I'll never forget the first time I saw a bear in the wild. It was a moment ...
BRIAN MEYERS

Many information workers spend a majority of their time trapped at their desk dealing with e-mail.
BRIAN MEYERS

They said, 'well, there's a possibility it'll swing back the other way'. I debated very hard on the ...
CARL MEYERS

(We've had) a lot of second thoughts about this whole thing, but I don't see we really have a choice...
CARL MEYERS

Maybe we'll try it non smoking and still, if worse case scenario as far as daily and monthly income ...
CARL MEYERS

Now, they have redefined for the second time the requirements, and we do meet the requirement, so we...
CARL MEYERS

Am I wavering? No, maybe slightly, but I still think probably it's a pretty sound decision. I suspec...
CARL MEYERS

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a co...
SETH MEYERS

I could walk a mile in your shoes, but I already know they're just as uncomfortable as mine. Let's w...
LYNDA MEYERS

One of the most compelling findings is that AAV-2 appears to have no pathologic effects on healthy c...
CRAIG MEYERS

Might I ask what medical school [the detainee] is a graduate of? Or from which state you and your st...
CHARLES MEYERS

I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.
SETH MEYERS

he will do a great job.
CHARLES MEYERS

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same compla...
CHARLES MEYERS

My doctor says ?square dancing is the only thing that keeps me walking today.? It's put ten years on...
ARTHUR MEYERS

I've been at it sixty years.
ARTHUR MEYERS

I've been dancing since I was 14-years-old.
ARTHUR MEYERS

We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests...
CRAIG MEYERS

Darren had much thicker hips, and he was able to run over you if he had to. D-Bell is a lot thinner ...
JEFF MEYERS

Overall, we're coming in week after week for about five to six weeks of negative news. Everyone is b...
WARREN MEYERS

He's going to be a steal for somebody. I fully expect him to be an early offer type player. He's alr...
JEFF MEYERS

There was a big sigh of relief when we finally filled this vacancy.
STEVE MEYERS

Any child who is placed on a stimulant medication should be watched closely for side effects. The ch...
DIANE MEYERS

It is vision, a long-term vision.
DARRELL MEYERS

Basically, I think we have to pull back. We have to be careful not to prescribe just to please [adul...
DIANE MEYERS

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy th...
CRAIG MEYERS

The market is in free-fall. This is certainly not a technical picture. The Nasdaq is falling apart a...
SCOTT MEYERS

I think very good is the way to put it. We're trying to do something entirely different and build an...
BOB MEYERS

Everyone is learning how to be a little bit smarter. Of course, that's much easier said than done, b...
BOB MEYERS

I think all of us want to support this, but there are absolutely no compelling reasons out there to ...
BOB MEYERS

You can still find buttons for 5 cents, but a single button can go into the hundreds, even thousands...
RUTH MEYERS

The dealers have to buy in, the suppliers, their shareholders, Wall Street. Each of those constituen...
GERALD MEYERS

Those are suppression activities. Those are not eradication.
CRAIG MEYERS

can't just sit back and rest on our laurels.
CHARLES MEYERS

As we get closer to the mid- to late-fourth quarter and even the first quarter, we'll start to see h...
SCOTT MEYERS

Pedestrians take precedence over bicycles and automobiles in the campus core. We will remove parking...
DARRELL MEYERS

It's really amazing to me that industry watchers who were never more optimistic (in June) are now as...
JIM MEYERS

Credit counseling sounds like a good thing. If the credit agency is sincerely concerned about the de...
KENNETH MEYERS

It was dismaying to see the account go out of the area.
GARY MEYERS

It's a real feather in Coach Allen's hat to get a kid like Derek Miller. In my opinion, Derek is the...
JEFF MEYERS

It was really interesting to see how people view themselves and how they see themselves in the commu...
DONNA MEYERS

People have to understand what this does to families. We have to stop it.
DONNA MEYERS

A picture is worth a thousand words,
DONNA MEYERS

The association was a blessing. When you think no one understands, they do.
DONNA MEYERS

Even if you succeed at the border, you're only catching 60 percent of the problem. I don't think tha...
DEBORAH MEYERS

All an employer has to do is ask for these documents; he doesn't have to verify they're accurate.
DEBORAH MEYERS

We can't have a lease that you have the ability to take away at will.
DICK MEYERS

I still see problems with spending.
DICK MEYERS

When I'm with the children I get a feel for what I think they would get really excited about. If I s...
DIANE MEYERS

We talk to them about science, aerodynamics, weather, math, and geography. We apply everything we do...
DIANE MEYERS

They can disrupt the normal stimulation of the cardiac muscle.
DIANE MEYERS

It makes the publisher look bad. How did he get it past editors that are supposed to have caught it?...
DON MEYERS

His wife wears them to church.
DON MEYERS

I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything.
DON MEYERS

If you don't have the resonance of the wood, you don't have the tones for the electronics to pick up...
DON MEYERS

In this trial, we'll remove half of a lobe or less. The less lung we take, the more lung function we...
BRYAN MEYERS

Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population...
CRAIG MEYERS

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into th...
SCOTT MEYERS

The transit system will provide a dependable, reliable and efficient alternative to the automobile.
DARRELL MEYERS

The reason we're doing it is to be able to train more missionaries, to train more effectively and be...
DAVID MEYERS

This is the biggest expansion and financial project that we've ever undertaken. The biggest reason i...
DAVID MEYERS

[Meyers notes that GM also is buffeted by macroeconomic winds that are damaging the company's bottom...
GERALD MEYERS

The heat is excruciatingly high.
GERALD MEYERS

It's necessary now. The message has to not only be presented, it has to be accepted.
GERALD MEYERS

I've known Jerry a long time, and he isn't a guy who sits back, or tries to 'get along' with everybo...
GERALD MEYERS

If the sport-utilities coming in January don't save the day, the restructuring we're seeing now will...
GERALD MEYERS

He may ask for a harder line with suppliers, and more cost reductions, and eliminations of brands, ....
GERALD MEYERS

GM's got enormous momentum of the wrong kind. It has, in decades past, been hugely successful. The c...
GERALD MEYERS

The U.S. auto industry will be much like the European industry is right now -- in a word, fragmented...
GERALD MEYERS

It was our biggest win of the season. They came into our league three years ago and we've played the...
GARY MEYERS

This is the worst I've ever seen. I've been all over the U.S., and the most I've ever seen in a day ...
GARY MEYERS

We have some work to go.
GREG MEYERS

We believe, as more homeless people are assisted, and more families are kept in their relatively-sta...
GREG MEYERS

We're looking to expand the project to include homeless prevention. We would provide on-site counsel...
GREG MEYERS

We will, as the design and construction contracts are developed for the various launch vehicle compo...
GENE MEYERS

Nancy did well. She improved with every throw.
GENE MEYERS

Chase looks so smooth. He's going to have a good season.
GENE MEYERS

That's a darn good jump for Kemp. That was the same height as the winning varsity jump.
GENE MEYERS

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.
GENE MEYERS

That's for a week. Richard Branson [who runs Virgin Galactic] will be charging that for a five-minut...
GENE MEYERS

We're sticking with technology that has been developed and used.
GENE MEYERS

We wanted to give the fans something more. One of the most impressive things about sprint car racing...
JASON MEYERS

You can't put the green No. 11 car on the pole and expect to pass him on most nights. But we had a g...
JASON MEYERS

The competition is the strongest it's ever been. Any more, if you have a bad night, you're going to ...
JASON MEYERS

Getting quick time on the second night is everything. The only thing worth getting on the second nig...
JASON MEYERS

When you used to only have 10 traveling cars out here, a heat race was a chance to try something, se...
JASON MEYERS

Some people may have some concern I'm a one-issue candidate. I'm not.
LARRY MEYERS

You just take the water for granted and you use it as you normally would. But then you go somewhere ...
LARRY MEYERS

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.
LARRY MEYERS

We feel he has been living on borrowed time for about 32 years, or whatever it was, and we were happ...
LARRY MEYERS

Ive already felt that, there's been some really great blessings that have come my way, so, must be...
LARRY MEYERS

The energy around it is just really inspiring to me,
LARRY MEYERS

The energy around it is really inspiring me. I've already felt that. There's been some really great ...
LARRY MEYERS

We need to get a lot of preliminary input before we can work on getting them (ninth-graders) to the ...
JEFF MEYERS

Every board member knew what was going on.
JEFF MEYERS

We're not willing to strap a future school board with an unreasonable clause, and the me-too is unre...
JEFF MEYERS

We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.
JEFF MEYERS

I say he's the fastest kid in the state of Kansas. I say that because he took third in the state in ...
JEFF MEYERS

You would like to think 10 runs in the first two innings is enough. But they have a player like Jaso...
TOM MEYERS

Humor heals the heckler.
GERALD C. MEYERS

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
GERALD C. MEYERS

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from t...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 198...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and try...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to get...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest ...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we wil...
ROBIN R. MEYERS

Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more a...
ROBIN R. MEYERS

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with him...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

There will be ups and downs, but it is important to remember you're on your own beautiful journey, a...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

When you work with Tom certain things have to be secretive and you accept that.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

It's not reality for me at the moment .
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

There are some warning sirens out there now, but would there be enough to cover the entire county su...
SHERIFF RICHARD MEYERS

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to G...
ROBIN R. MEYERS

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your lif...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine...
ROBIN R. MEYERS

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Don’t throw away God’s plan for you just to chase a dream of your own making.
PAMELA S. MEYERS

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m...
NANCY GRACE

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...
NANCY PELOSI

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a...
NANCY KRESS

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma...
NANCY WERLIN

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,...
NANCY WERLIN

I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
NANCY WERLIN

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN

There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN

'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
NANCY WAKE

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men...
NANCY WAKE

I adored my father.
NANCY WAKE

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with...
NANCY TRAVIS

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n...
NANCY TRAVIS

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin...
NANCY TRAVIS

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
NANCY TRAVIS

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
NANCY TRAVIS

'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g...
NANCY TRAVIS

I love zoo sanctuaries.
NANCY TRAVIS

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
NANCY THAYER

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend...
NANCY THAYER

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b...
NANCY SINATRA

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
NANCY SINATRA

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a...
NANCY SINATRA

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
NANCY SINATRA

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
NANCY SINATRA

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio...
NANCY SINATRA

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too...
NANCY SINATRA

His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ...
NANCY SINATRA

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
NANCY SINATRA

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip...
NANCY SINATRA

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru...
NANCY SINATRA

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit...
NANCY SINATRA

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
NANCY SINATRA

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ...
NANCY SINATRA

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
NANCY SINATRA

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
NANCY SINATRA

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op...
NANCY SINATRA

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It...
NANCY SINATRA

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and...
NANCY SINATRA

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l...
NANCY SINATRA

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,...
NANCY SINATRA

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden...
NANCY SINATRA

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
NANCY ROMAN

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

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Nancy Meyers

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

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