Christopher Fowler Quotes
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.Christopher Fowler
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale -
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
Dana Goodyear -
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
Adam Jones -
Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin -
If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
Karen Mills -
I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
Nate Berkus -
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak -
No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
Ted Deutch -
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar -
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
Dan Farmer -
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
Ian Somerhalder -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov -
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna -
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
Tana French
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In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.
Dede Gardner -
I'm more an actor who can dance and sing if I absolutely have to. I studied theatre in college, but I studied drama, but I don't have that Broadway voice, and I'm not a trained dancer or anything like that. I identify mostly as an actor first and foremost.
John DeLuca -
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen -
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
Christopher Fowler