David Liss Quotes

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

David Liss

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• As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Worry

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Good
  • Money
  • Never

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I've shown that in all of my fights.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Good

• I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  

  John Dryden
  • Tired
  • Fool

• To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Art
  • American
  • Together

• Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

  

  David Liss
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