Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I pushed the process forward by saying, ‘We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.’ – Michael Arad
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. – Nick Cave
I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to. – Matt Passmore
Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board. – Edward Johnson, III
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you’re a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that. – Donna Summer
I’m here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama! – Charlie Crist
We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim. – Dana Boente
From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus. – Charles Jules Henry Nicole
As one of the country’s largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward. – Gordon Gee
I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn’t seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. – Phil Collins
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. – George Bernard Shaw
I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want. – Marsha Blackburn
As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. – Nick Ferguson
We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we’re going to need in order to go forward. – Mitchell Reiss
I think that’s something to look forward to: The new Gracie Gold at the Olympics. In 2014, you’ll see a lot of the warm Gracie, and not just the athletic Gracie. – Gracie Gold
Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don’t look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don’t worry about it because it’s going to happen to me as it does to anybody. – Donald Hall
In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts. – David Weinberger
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke
If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that’s going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare. – Christina Romer
If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold. – Mariska Hargitay
The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you’re with 100 percent. – Melissa McBride
Creativity is every company’s first driver. It’s where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place. – Nolan Bushnell
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. – Nancy Pelosi
I don’t necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It’s something I have to do, more than something I look forward to doing. But it does enable me to do fun things. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
