Top 30 Don Diablo Quotes

#1. Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #97874
#2. I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #154130
#3. There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

Louise Penny

Don Diablo Quotes #164037
#4. I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #164800
#5. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.

Steve Knox

Don Diablo Quotes #183796
#6. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #210062
#7. defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.")

Doug Erlandson

Don Diablo Quotes #271422
#8. Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat.

Deborah Blum

Don Diablo Quotes #320179
#9. I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #345538
#10. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Elliott Colla

Don Diablo Quotes #373219
#11. It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

Andy Warhol

Don Diablo Quotes #524915
#12. I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #532394
#13. The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

George Leonard

Don Diablo Quotes #544843
#14. The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.

Karl Barth

Don Diablo Quotes #547101
#15. I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #656328
#16. If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

Ethel Waters

Don Diablo Quotes #702140
#17. Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #725834
#18. Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Sophocles

Don Diablo Quotes #797449
#19. When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #835891
#20. I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #902354
#21. I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #994219
#22. We're no light at all if we're not a light in a visible place.

Karen Kingsbury

Don Diablo Quotes #1005156
#23. Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don't ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1130831
#24. Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Scott Westerfeld

Don Diablo Quotes #1269269
#25. People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1290125
#26. I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1305862
#27. I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1434079
#28. I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1471321
#29. I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Diablo Cody

Don Diablo Quotes #1594233
#30. Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Garry Kasparov

Don Diablo Quotes #1783232

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