![I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-figured-id-probably-write-50-scripts-in-my-life-out-of-those-50-i-figured-ma.jpg)
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writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing thinking apples
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor... Angus King
writing vision impulse
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. Angus Wilson
writing novelists harsh
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
writing drawing stories
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. Ani Difranco
writing keys people
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. Andy Hertzfeld
writing want hats
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. Andrew Motion
successful people mind
I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work. Mark Martin
successful exercise technology
Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate. Eric Schmidt
successful mind being-successful
We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best. Eli Manning
successful men self
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. Malcolm Gladwell
successful player artist
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say. John Lasseter
successful
We can be very successful at controlling diabetes. Dr. Cefalu
law justice mystery
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? Edmund Burke
lawyers neither nor took
took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared. Michael Jackson
law mind bears
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. Robert Greene
law important execution
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. Thomas Jefferson
law judging safety
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
law united-states void
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.
law citizens obedience
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
law rebellion duty
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
law trying president
The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position. Rick Santorum