A Quote by Nicole Holofcener

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

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Nicole Holofcener
American - Director
Born: March 22, 1960

Without sounding arrogant, I achieved a lot more than I thought I would do.

Alastair Cook

There are a lot of smart people being really thoughtful and writing really interesting things, but that isn't what I want to do. It's never felt like what I've been called to do. And I have to risk sounding really arrogant when I say that because I've gone to Ivy League schools and been privileged in all these ways in the world of ideas, but I'm not as smart as you think. I'm not really depending on what I learned in college to write my books. Those were just parts of my life experience.

Ottessa Moshfegh

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

Rostam Batmanglij

A Trumpist is a devoted supporter and understands what he or she is doing. A Trumper is just different sounding, better sounding, I think. I've even had some Trumpists tell me they don't like the term. They think it's derogatory.

Rush Limbaugh

If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.

Julien Baker

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred.

John Densmore

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

Sushant Singh Rajput

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Herbert

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

Wayne Rogers

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.

Brett Goldstein

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Brendan Myers

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Felicity Jones

As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.