Seat Filler Quotes

#1. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Karina Halle

#2. There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads ... and the pictures were so vivid.

Robbie Robertson

#3. Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#4. The Life of Sir Thomas Munro, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831), vol. ii, p. 175.

William Sleeman

#5. You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

Sidney Poitier

#6. She sees ghosts," said Samuel, impatient with my whining.
"I see dead people," I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn't thought he'd be a moviegoer.

Patricia Briggs

#7. Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Tom Stoppard

#8. I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Tom Stoppard