Top 45 Daugherty Quotes
#1. I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.
Melissa Rosenberg
#2. Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas.
In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
Gary D. Schmidt
#3. I wush for his own sake that he'd have a big steaming cup of calm the hell down.
C.J. Daugherty
#4. The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
Duffy Daugherty
#5. The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.
Evan Daugherty
#6. There is power in prayer, but there is added power in a combination of fasting and prayer.
Billy Joe Daugherty
#7. I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
Evan Daugherty
#8. I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
Evan Daugherty
#9. When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty
#10. The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.
Evan Daugherty
#11. In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.
Evan Daugherty
#12. 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.
Evan Daugherty
#13. Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
#14. Male novelists were granted a 'social tradition' in which to operate, Didion discovered" 'hard drinkers, bad livers, wives, wars, big fish, Africa, Paris, no second acts.
Tracy Daugherty
#15. Allie hated this. Why couldn't they have even a day to be normal kids in a normal school, with their A levels the biggest obstacle ahead of them?
C.J. Daugherty
#16. I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through the bottom of the net.
Brad Daugherty
#17. No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
Evan Daugherty
#18. I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.
Brant Daugherty
#19. I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.
Brant Daugherty
#21. Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.
Evan Daugherty
#22. I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.
Brant Daugherty
#23. I hate it when therapy jumps out and surprises you like that.
C.J. Daugherty
#24. I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.
Evan Daugherty
#25. As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
Evan Daugherty
#26. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
#27. I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.
Evan Daugherty
#28. That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.
Evan Daugherty
#29. Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
Evan Daugherty
#31. That was the worst date I ever had. And we. Are so. Over.
C.J. Daugherty
#32. Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
Evan Daugherty
#33. I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.
Evan Daugherty
#34. A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.
Evan Daugherty
#35. I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.
Brant Daugherty
#36. I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills ... I was not good at it.
Brant Daugherty
#37. I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
Duffy Daugherty
#38. I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.
Evan Daugherty
#39. Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I've found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don't think you can just feed on me.
C.J. Daugherty
#40. My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty
#41. Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport
Duffy Daugherty
#42. But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.
C.J. Daugherty
#43. The voice in her head told her not to trust him. But then, the voice in her head didn't trust anyone.
C.J. Daugherty
#44. Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.
Duffy Daugherty
#45. I was 24 years old when they moved; my brother and sister were 27. Eventually, my sister moved to the same town, but my brother and I stayed north, he in Maryland, I in Ohio. A family,
Paul Daugherty
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