Helaina Jaffe Quotes

#1. I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Julius Caesar

#2. I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

Ashraf Barhom

#3. The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

Michael Shurtleff

#4. There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

Ross Levinsohn

#5. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

#6. A girl can dream."
His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?"
"Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. 'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

Maria Semple

#8. ...August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but - so the evidence suggests - not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts

Noam Chomsky

#9. Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Raymond Aron

#10. Heavenly Father has perfect foresight, knows each of us, and knows our future. He knows what difficulties we will pass through. He sent His Son to suffer so that He would know how to succor us in all our trials.

Henry B. Eyring

#11. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Jerry Brown

#12. You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

Anthony Burgess