David Guterson Quotes

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Same

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I didn't really enjoy school in general.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

  

  Ice Cube
  • She
  • Kids
  • Woman

• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Peace

• Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Blood
  • Relations
  • Flattery

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Food
  • Favorite
  • Take

• My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Great
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • War
  • Die

• It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Good
  • Strong

• ‘I cannot forgive, but I understand.’

  

  Christopher Paolini

• Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Amazing
  • Training
  • Wrestling

• Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

  

  Leonard Alfred George Strong
  • People
  • Persons
  • Year

• It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

  

  David Guterson
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