You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear! ("The Jelly-Fish")
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.
Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house.
I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.
The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
(fragment) Three things I turned my back to: light, the past, the trunk of an old tree. One by one each unfastened itself. To sit is to present when the roll is called. I knew that. I wore my hat of straw, fringed like fingers sifting a breeze. My ha...
The audacity is in the living, not in the choosing. You are fearless enough to keep breathing; in the face of loss and pain and humility and gratitude and gifts and brilliance and confusion. This is the amazing thing. Right or wrong can never be anyt...
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
