Lynda Obst Quotes

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that). ~ Lynda Obst

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones. ~ Lynda Obst

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological. ~ Lynda Obst

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world. ~ Lynda Obst

With all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? ~ Lynda Obst

Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping. ~ Lynda Obst

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure. ~ Lynda Obst

Information is currency ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. ~ Lynda Obst

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world. ~ Lynda Obst

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one. ~ Lynda Obst

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. ~ Lynda Obst

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part. ~ Lynda Obst

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business. ~ Lynda Obst

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster. ~ Lynda Obst

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma. ~ Lynda Barry

My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep. ~ Lynda I Fisher

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Writing about Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the colonial policies of the past to the problems faced by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit today. It means acknowledging the wrongs and the pain. ~ Lynda A. Archer

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge. ~ Lynda Field

Sometimes I wonder. On the pathetic scale, where would I land? I know other kids my age would go to the mall if they cut school, but I'm off to the library. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child. ~ Lynda Resnick

It's important to look neat and tidy and not be too flashily dressed. If you look untidy, you're considered to have an untidy mind - it's as simple as that! ~ Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey

You want to see women your own age in films. ~ Lynda Carter

Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic. ~ Lynda Resnick

I didn't like people knowing things about me. I wasn't embarrassed by my past, because it couldn't be helped, but people were cruel and the more they knew about a person, the more power they held. And that power was usually used as a weapon of words. ~ Lynda LeeAnne

She thought she had heard every kind of sound a person could make, witnessed every expression the human face could conjure up out of pain, joy, or grief. That was what she thought before this evening. ~ Lynda Cohen Loigman

Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world! ~ Lynda Barry

The future is now the present ~ Lynda Young Spiro

The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm. ~ Lynda Resnick

But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school - when he didn't have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they had to. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Do what you know needs to be done. ~ Lynda A. Calder

Well…alone is a way to be. It's being by yourself with no one else around. And it can be good or bad. And it can be a choice…. But being lonely is never a choice. It's not about who is with you or not. You can feel lonely when you are alone, but the worst kind of lonely is when you're in a room full of people, but you're still alone. Or you feel like you are anyway. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Moments are fleeting. Memories are permanent. Love is forever. ~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

The power to heal is all in the hug. ~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Abe was a lucky man. He told himself that every morning while he dressed and every night before he went to sleep. Abe wasn't religious but every day he thanked God for his beautiful wife, his four healthy sons, his brother and his business. Sometimes he left out his brother, but only when Mort was being a pain in the ass. ~ Lynda Cohen Loigman

LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.
It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art. ~ David Levithan

I've styled and restyled my hair. I've curled it and then straightened it. I look at myself in the mirror and sigh. I try to curl it again with the styling brush but the brush gets tangled and I can't get the bloody thing out. After telling myself not to panic I go into panic mode as the smell of singeing hair wafts up my nose. What's the bloody point of having release buttons on the damn things when they don't bloody release? Seconds later I tug the thing out along with several tufts of hair. I ~ Lynda Renham

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism. ~ Lynda Resnick

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could. ~ Lynda Barry

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child. ~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it. ~ Lynda Barry

Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life? ~ Lynda Sandoval

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. ~ Lynda Barry

If you put off a vibe that you can handle yourself, other people will start treating you that way. Everything is attitude. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. ~ Lynda Barry

I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system. ~ Lynda Barry

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever. ~ Lynda Resnick

The familiar warmth from the church saturated his heart. Was this what Mom meant by Christmas joy? ~ Jennifer Gladen

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. ~ Lynda Barry

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition. ~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

We always think our own grief is the worst - worse than everybody else's. But the truth is, we never know for sure what the people around us are feeling. ~ Lynda Cohen Loigman

I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams. ~ Lynda Resnick

So instead I stare at the steaming liquid dripping into a coffeepot and start thinking of steaming volcanoes. And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters. ~ Lynda Resnick