Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

Kathryn Stockett

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Forever
  • Period

• In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Boy

• Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Long
  • Experience
  • College

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Continue

• I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Famous
  • Really

• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Leadership

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Technology
  • Training

• I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Known

• I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Done
  • Experience

• As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Write
  • Rap

• I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Know
  • More

• When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Artist
  • Australia

• I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Wisdom
  • Thing
  • Possess

• That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Home
  • Pretty

• The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Art
  • Design
  • Collaboration

• The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Effort

• Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

  

  Pete Maravich

• I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

  

  Kathryn Stockett