Marta Kauffman quotes

“Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.”
-- Marta Kauffman

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“To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.”
-- Marta Kauffman

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“Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.”
-- Marta Kauffman

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

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“I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.”
-- Marta Kauffman

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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“I will say it's great to be a woman because we're very good at multitasking. I could nurse and cook dinner at the same time. It is juggling. It's juggling and you've got to commit to working on the weekends - I do both.”
-- Marta Kauffman

Source : Source: deadline.com

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“I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."”
-- Marta Kauffman

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

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“Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.”
-- Marta Kauffman

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.

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“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”

“If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.”

“The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.”

“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”

“If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.”

Source : Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

“I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.”

“There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.”