Neil Simon Quotes

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

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• A president can't go to every memorial service.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Service
  • President
  • Memorial

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • You
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Short
  • Stand

• If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• For the rain it raineth every day.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Action
  • Hand

• New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Art
  • Food

• When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Truth
  • Giving

• I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

  

  Luke Benward
  • Action

• You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Life
  • Important

• You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.

  

  Charles Schwab

• Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Fate

• It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

  

  Fanny Mendelssohn
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Talent

• That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Athlete

• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Everything
  • Fat
  • Almost

• I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fun

• Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Passion
  • Talent
  • Succeed