Top 53 Meriwether Quotes
#1. A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
Meriwether Lewis
#2. In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#3. Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
Meriwether Lewis
#4. It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#5. We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis
#6. The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Meriwether Lewis
#7. I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.
Louise Meriwether
#8. I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#9. But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#10. I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#11. The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
Meriwether Lewis
#12. Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#13. Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#14. Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.
Meriwether Lewis
#15. I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#16. What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#17. I wanted to hug them all. We belonged to each other somehow...But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn't want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self.
Louise Meriwether
#18. I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#19. The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
Meriwether Lewis
#20. Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#21. I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.
Lee Meriwether
#22. The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.
Meriwether Lewis
#24. I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#25. How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?
Louise Meriwether
#26. As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
Meriwether Lewis
#27. The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#28. People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#29. Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#31. There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#32. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.
Michael Lewis
#33. On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Meriwether Lewis
#34. I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
Elizabeth Meriwether
#35. I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#36. The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#37. If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#38. Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#39. It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.
Lee Meriwether
#40. Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
Meriwether Lewis
#41. I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#42. I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#43. It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn.
Louise Meriwether
#44. I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#45. A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Meriwether Lewis
#47. We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
Meriwether Lewis
#48. Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#49. The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.
Meriwether Lewis
#50. We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Meriwether Lewis
#51. I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.
Meriwether Lewis
#52. If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#53. I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
Elizabeth Meriwether
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