Top 40 Nevins Quotes
#1. I believe, in your life, there is always one person who is so totally right for you.
Anita Waller
#2. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#3. In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
David Nevins
#4. I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.
David Nevins
#5. I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
David Nevins
#6. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.
Jess Nevins
#7. I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.
Sheila Nevins
#8. If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
Allan Nevins
#9. The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
Adolf Hitler
#10. I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.
Sheila Nevins
#11. I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.
Sheila Nevins
#12. I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.
David Nevins
#13. Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
Jean Monnet
#14. So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.
David Nevins
#15. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#16. I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
David Nevins
#17. I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.
David Nevins
#18. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
Eric Allin Cornell
#19. I grip the edge of a sidewalk cafe table to keep from falling. The diners stare in alarm, but I don't care. I'm reeling, and I gasp for air. How can I have been so stupid? How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?
Stephanie Perkins
#20. I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away,
Sheila Nevins
#21. The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.
David Nevins
#22. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins
#23. I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
Robert Ballard
#24. I sat in a Plymouth Duster I had rented from Avis with my Diners' Club card, I had a paper tube in my mouth. It was stuffed with leaves. I set it on fire. It was a soigne thing to do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.
David Nevins
#26. I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
David Nevins
#27. Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were reawakened.
Allen Nevins
#28. A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
Jodi Picoult
#29. One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict was still in charge of the Vatican, and it was conceived in a world that now would feel very dated.
David Nevins
#30. To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.
Sheila Nevins
#31. The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
John Frankenheimer
#32. My activism did not spring from being black ... The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.
Bayard Rustin
#34. His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#35. I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.
David Nevins
#36. I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
Sheila Nevins
#37. History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
Allan Nevins
#38. In Russia today, 110 persons, including Mr. Putin's cronies, control 35% of the country's wealth while 50% of adults have total household wealth of $871 or lower.
Anonymous
#39. I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
Leonard Cohen
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