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Nancy Meyers
"Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them." --
Source : "Nancy Meyers: The rom-com queen". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.independent.co.uk. January 9, 2010.
Nancy Meyers
#Romantic Quotes
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“Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.”
“Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.”
“I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.”
Source : Interview with Couch Baron, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com.
“I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.”
“It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.”
“In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the best public works - we call it infrastructure today - in the history of the world. Highways, bridges, water and sewer, community colleges and medical research. We don't do that the way we used to.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”
Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.197, Univ of California Press
“Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.”