New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
David S. Goyer
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of... JANE LYNCH Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used... KEVIN SPACEY It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a... AARON TVEIT Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are man... CHARLOTTE RAE I saw this show under adverse circumstances-my seat was facing the stage. JOHN DAVID KLEIN When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died YOGI BERRA Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential... BOB IGER Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know t... AUSTIN BUTLER I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's wha... IAN SOMERHALDER Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of c... FREDDIE WONG We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but a... BURNIE BURNS It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are... LINDA MCMAHON People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a... DOUG ADAMS Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same te... BENJAMIN BRATT I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doin... ROBERT ENGLUND You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the televis... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO This basically challenges the perception out there that people are abandoning television or going to... DAVID POLTRACK More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there be... ANDY SERKIS The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now. SEAN BEAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.” MICHEL FABER The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it finan... DAVID CRONENBERG We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie st... ALFRE WOODARD Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost ... ALEX TABARROK I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more o... LAURIE HOLDEN Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, ... PAUL AUSTER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Don't drag in television. It is worked to death and there are so many better appliances you can use ... HUGO GERNSBACK Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors,... SAMIRA WILEY To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing... DAN FUTTERMAN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.... SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality. STEPHEN MAGNUS Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not c... ALEX BORSTEIN In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. MAX VON SYDOW Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the sta... BRENDAN COYLE The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, bec... JESSE EISENBERG I've become completely obsessed with Netflix original programming. 'House of Cards' and ... CLAIRE HOLT The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and tele... THOMAS MCDONELL The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all a... CARI SHAYNE You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors,... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much be... TOM MASSEY I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the plat... LAURIEANN GIBSON I decided there and then to sue the bastards. BARRY SHEENE And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television h... PENELOPE ANN MILLER I love acting. It is so much more real than life. OSCAR WILDE The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. JOHN GIELGUD I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... OSCAR WILDE You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters SENECA Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop JACK NICHOLSON My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Ac... TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN There are no small parts. Only small actors. MILAN KUNDERA You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself. JACK L. WARNER An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it... HELEN HAYES I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. BRIGITTE BARDOT The best actors do not let the wheels show. MILAN KUNDERA I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n... JULIA ROBERTS The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ETHEL BARRYMORE I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. BETTE MIDLER I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. EWAN MCGREGOR I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t... ORSON WELLES Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing... THOMAS BETTERTON Originally, I Was A Happy Drunk
EWAN MCGREGOR Nicole - Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarras... EWAN MCGREGOR Why am I here? You guys are so fantastic. KATE REID For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha... DUSTIN HOFFMAN In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld. CHARLES KEATING Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-loo... RONALD STEEL The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with mo... CHARLIE COX Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. ... STEVEN SPIELBERG I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole ne... STEVEN VAN ZANDT In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because p... ANDRZEJ WAJDA But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basic... JOHN LANDIS I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have o... BRAD STONE The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of w... ROY WILKINS Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life.... ROY WILKINS Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's te... FRANK DEFORD
More David S. Goyer
'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradual... DAVID S. GOYER What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the sa... DAVID S. GOYER When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that we... DAVID S. GOYER I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batm... DAVID S. GOYER I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising sci... DAVID S. GOYER I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anythin... DAVID S. GOYER I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even b... DAVID S. GOYER Superman is not as innately cool as Batman. DAVID S. GOYER People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconogr... DAVID S. GOYER Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons... DAVID S. GOYER 'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And sud... DAVID S. GOYER It's also one of the ways we're going to talk about [how] the aliens might even communicate or be co... DAVID S. GOYER I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably ... DAVID S. GOYER I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficul... DAVID S. GOYER It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By fa... DAVID S. GOYER There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don'... DAVID S. GOYER There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' ... DAVID S. GOYER Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't eve... DAVID S. GOYER During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are re... DAVID S. GOYER What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic... DAVID S. GOYER Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie ad... DAVID S. GOYER I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more i... DAVID S. GOYER I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie l... DAVID S. GOYER As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to mak... DAVID S. GOYER I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is al... DAVID S. GOYER I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. DAVID S. GOYER I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an... DAVID S. GOYER Historically when people have been scared and nervous, there's been an uptick in science fantasy hor... DAVID GOYER There have been lots of great shows that have complicated mythologies. It didn't seem to hurt The X-... DAVID GOYER In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on s... DAVID GOYER Historically when people have been scared and people have been nervous, there's been an uptick in sc... DAVID GOYER [In a tumultuous world, science fiction and horror series are a spin on current events.] It's obviou... DAVID GOYER [Braga (Star Trek: Enterprise) and David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity) were frank about the trend toward... DAVID GOYER They're going to be exploiting our cellular phones, our TV signals. They're going to be using our ow... DAVID GOYER It's also one of the ways we're going to talk about [how] the aliens might even communicate or be co... DAVID GOYER What recently happened in London, what's going on in Iraq and the West Bank -- people are scared. Hi... DAVID GOYER We would love for him to come back. He did a great job. He's a really sweet guy, and he had a great ... DAVID GOYER I find out Peter Hyams was available, so I just called him and said, 'Can you help us out?' He said ... DAVID GOYER I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And on... DAVID GOYER I don't think four science- fiction shows are going to survive, but a couple probably will. DAVID GOYER As a viewer, (I) like shows like that. I like shows that have a breadth to them and that you can pic... DAVID GOYER Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. DAVID S. MUZZEY The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, a... DAVID S. ROSE If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at... DAVID S. ROSE As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground. DAVID S. LANDES It ran on its toes, especially when it got going. That's what all fast animals do. DAVID S. BERMAN This little animal was built for speed. It was very, very fast. DAVID S. BERMAN I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product... DAVID S. ROSE Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough. DAVID S. ROSE I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so che... DAVID S. ROSE Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And... DAVID S. ROSE Watching movie instead of reading books, feeling like I am getting away from my own fantasy. P S DAVID PAUL Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano... S. ANSKY When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres... S. ANSKY A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor... S. ANSKY All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi... S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me. BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead. NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself. S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too... S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it. NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ... S. GUDDER To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning. MICHAEL S. If we always live in constant fear then we might miss the beauty of the moment r... S. TARR But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be. S. IYENGAR People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product. MICHAEL S. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream? S. BALARAM Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t... S. CICCARELLI Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it VIGNESH S Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to... GODISNOW1'S ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to... S. OHNO As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. S. OHNO உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன... S. RAMAKRISHNAN வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்... S. RAMAKRISHNAN Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time VIGNESH S Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor VIGNESH S If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day... S. KHUBIAR Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ... S. HUGHES Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. GEORGE S. PATTON The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. HARRY S TRUMAN 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo... C. S. LEWIS We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives a... S. TRUETT CATHY If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. HARRY S TRUMAN There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of th... ULYSSES S. GRANT Better to fight for something than live for nothing. GEORGE S. PATTON Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. C. S. LEWIS The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife,... T. S. KALYANARAMAN I don't calculate my net worth. T. S. KALYANARAMAN Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust. T. S. KALYANARAMAN A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity. T. S. KALYANARAMAN I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness. T. S. KALYANARAMAN I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do. S. TRUETT CATHY We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.' S. TRUETT CATHY I cook chicken for a living. S. TRUETT CATHY I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var... S. TRUETT CATHY If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of... S. TRUETT CATHY I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven... S. TRUETT CATHY I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou... S. TRUETT CATHY I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit... S. TRUETT CATHY I had to create some good work habits and attitude. S. TRUETT CATHY Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here. S. TRUETT CATHY If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business. S. TRUETT CATHY I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo... S. TRUETT CATHY I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can... S. TRUETT CATHY It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ... S. TRUETT CATHY I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti... S. TRUETT CATHY The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ... S. TRUETT CATHY Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. S. TRUETT CATHY I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. S. TRUETT CATHY You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on... S. TRUETT CATHY Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done. S. TRUETT CATHY Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things... S. TRUETT CATHY In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. S. TRUETT CATHY We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ... S. TRUETT CATHY Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti... S. TRUETT CATHY Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product. S. TRUETT CATHY I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers. S. T. JOSHI You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years. S. T. JOSHI My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age. S. T. JOSHI I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ... S. ROBSON WALTON I was small but slow as a college tackle. S. ROBSON WALTON I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -... S. ROBSON WALTON I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ... S. ROBSON WALTON In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it. S. JAY OLSHANSKY People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the w... S. JAY OLSHANSKY The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically e... S. JAY OLSHANSKY The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work. S. JAY OLSHANSKY The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol... S. JAY OLSHANSKY We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth... S. JAY OLSHANSKY The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things... S. JAY OLSHANSKY What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days... S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption... S. JAY OLSHANSKY You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50... S. JAY OLSHANSKY If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d... S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p... S. JAY OLSHANSKY While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f... S. JAY OLSHANSKY The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un... S. JAY OLSHANSKY A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea... S. JAY OLSHANSKY Find a way to get a full-body massage every day. S. JAY OLSHANSKY I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest... S. J. ROZAN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp... S. J. ROZAN I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,... S. J. ROZAN One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails... S. J. ROZAN The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People... S. J. ROZAN The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent... S. J. ROZAN Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself. S. J. ROZAN When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as... S. J. ROZAN What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op... S. J. ROZAN Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad... S. J. ROZAN I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. S. J. PERELMAN I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started... S. J. PERELMAN Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. S. J. PERELMAN Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. S. J. PERELMAN The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ... S. J. PERELMAN In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an... S. I. HAYAKAWA I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. S. I. HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or... S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us... S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an... S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un... S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon... S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina... S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma.... S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends. S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer... S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t... S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi... S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a... S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN