Popular Culture At Work Quotes

#1. I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

Christy Hall

#2. Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

Paul Watson

#3. Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.

Simon Pegg

#4. I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

#5. I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#6. I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

Lauren Greenfield

#7. With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Sydney Pollack

#8. Good leaders make heroes of others.

Mark Sanborn

#9. I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it.

Schalk Burger

#10. Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Michael Leunig

#11. Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

Alan Dershowitz

#12. If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

Michael P. Anderson

#13. Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#14. The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#15. That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

Mark Bradford