Quotes About Chesil

#1. It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

Ian McEwan

#2. A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Ian McEwan

#3. It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell another person, "Here's what I think you should do." That's a discussion they should only have with the writers, producers, and directors.

David Koechner

#4. Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people ... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.

Jacque Fresco

#5. Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm.

Paul Farmer

#6. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

John Heywood

#7. The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Tina Brown

#8. There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

Mark Ruffalo

#9. The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

Rita Rudner

#10. I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

Chris Abani