Ian Wright Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur -
My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
Brown Campbell -
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden -
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
Gabourey Sidibe -
Love can never be fully explained.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg
-
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan -
In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
Yang Lan -
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
Barry Schwartz -
The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
E. Joseph Cossman -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch -
If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons
-
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
I could never take orders from anyone.
Gautam Adani -
I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J Mascis -
If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
Sadie Frost -
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R. A. Salvatore
-
I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
Andre Balazs -
I like mac and cheese.
Dan Brown -
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
Kate Reardon -
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction -
I never travel without my sketch book.
Ian Wright