#gist

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#approach #before #entity #even #guild

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time. ↗

— John Sweeney

#big #big time #boulevard #called #death

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#believe #biologist #came #could #down

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #diminish #distort #else #hands

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#best #coaches #deal #each #get

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. ↗

— Edward Koch

#foresight #primitive #strategist

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#affiliation #africa #always #biologist #field

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#man #music #musicologist #read #who