Birkman Direct Quotes

#1. Be human. Be a dreamer. Be your own personal success story. Then help others to dream again. Humanity depends on it.

Julieanne O'Connor

#2. I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jane Austen

#3. A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

Paul Kriwaczek

#4. I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

Dan Jenkins

#5. If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

Lorna Luft

#6. [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

#8. It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Miguel De Unamuno

#9. Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.

Gray Davis

#10. Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

Ted Sarandos

#11. Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.

Emilio Estevez

#12. When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#13. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro