Silbey Mui Quotes

#1. It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan

#2. Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

Richard LaGravenese

#3. Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

Leslie Stephen

#4. Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.

Laurie Nadel

#5. It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Sean Penn

#6. Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

Karch Kiraly

#7. I've heard you're the only person who's allowed to put Travis in his place. That's an honorable title.

Jamie McGuire

#8. If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

Susan Sarandon

#9. Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

Kim Garst

#10. If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Gaspard Ulliel

#11. What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.

John Piper

#12. [Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Vince Lombardi