Edgar Meyer Quotes

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

Edgar Meyer

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• I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Baseball

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Funny
  • Care
  • Watches

• Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Taste
  • Meat

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Doing

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Simple
  • Tired

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Start

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only 'the first step toward greatness,' - it is greatness itself.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Strong
  • Honesty
  • Greatness

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • See
  • Away
  • Failures

• Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Great
  • Why
  • Movie

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment