Baena Quotes

#1. When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but you are not quite part of it. You open your mouth, and you sound like a child; you know that you are someone else, but you cannot explain it.

Penelope Lively

#2. Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Jacqueline Winspear

#3. My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

Jeff Baena

#4. Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson

#5. If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

Jeff Baena

#6. When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio ... there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

Jeff Baena

#7. Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

John Gerzema

#8. Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.

Jeff Baena

#10. I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

Jon Heder

#11. Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

Daniel D. Maurer