Schlamme Quotes

#1. My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.

Alex Graves

#2. It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Chuck Berry

#3. My dad and I once had a fight because I refused to put ketchup on my hot dogs," I said.
"That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard.

Heather Cocks

#4. I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Thomas Schlamme

#5. When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

Thomas Schlamme

#6. but death is the ultimate purpose of life.

Wilbur Smith

#7. There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

Thomas Schlamme

#8. I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Thomas Schlamme

#9. I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.

Thomas Schlamme

#10. The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Helen Fisher

#11. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Roy Bennett

#12. I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show.

Thomas Schlamme

#13. Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.

Rebecca McNutt

#14. Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as if they weren't waiting for that at all.

Meg Wolitzer

#15. He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Hank Williams Jr.

#16. Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Roger Lowenstein

#17. Now. Put it in forward."
"Okay, just don't hurt Yoko." "Yoko?"
"My car." "You named your car Yoko? As in Ono?"
"You have a better name?" "How about Subaru?
"I'm shifting!

Carrie Jones

#18. Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

Charlie Trotter

#19. When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.

Thomas Schlamme

#20. I'm not busy ... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor

#21. For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.

Elizabeth Berg

#22. 'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.

Thomas Schlamme