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People have nannies and big cars and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved people get ruthless.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Category: Christmas

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
  • 2. America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
  • 3. I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen there's always the town gossip – 'Oh did you hear about so and so or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
  • 2. Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
  • 3. It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.

3 Anger

  • 1. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  • 2. A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like you're not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.
  • 3. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 2. I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
  • 3. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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