#telling

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#mistakes #only #stable #system #telling

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#give #give me #i #just #me

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#audience member #bringing #create #interested #into

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #becomes #done #failed #get

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#book #characters #feel #had #telling

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#delicious #every #every time #father #five

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#brother #coming #coming home #ever #fact

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#along #book #business #decided #finally

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers. ↗

— Zach Braff

#bar mitzvah #becoming #cheeseburgers #eat #father