With People Quotes

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

I understand that people can start to say stop it, let me have a break and look at my emails without having an ad pop up.

I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.