David Morrell Quotes

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

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• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Actor

• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Huge
  • Pie
  • Slice

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Childhood

• I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • America
  • Past

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Church
  • Easy
  • Week

• I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Feel

• I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • TV

• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  

  Omar Epps
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.

  

  Valerie Solanas

• To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Art
  • May
  • Experience

• Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

  

  Mark Waters
  • People
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Fashion

• In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

  

  David Morrell