Kristan Higgins Quotes
I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.
Quotes to Explore
-
When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
-
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
-
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
-
I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
-
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
-
If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
-
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
-
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
-
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
-
You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
-
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
-
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
-
Woman are complex creatures.
-
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
-
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
-
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
-
I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
-
I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.
