Christopher Priest Quotes

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Problem
  • Years

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Human

• I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Style
  • Challenge

• Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • School
  • Medical
  • Biology

• I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Know
  • Hollywood
  • Heads

• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Lost
  • Better
  • Romantic

• I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Stand

• If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Entrepreneur
  • Box

• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
  • Truth
  • King

• He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People

• Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Kiss

• We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Members
  • Grew Up
  • No Secrets

• Say no to death pies. Another good motto.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Death
  • Motto

• I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just non-negotiable. Maintaining a strong security network is just non-negotiable. I think the Indonesians understand that.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Security
  • Protection
  • Good Friend

• Marian is one of the top players in this league. He's an unbelievable athlete, and he's strong on the puck.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Athlete
  • Players
  • League

• There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

  

  Christopher Priest