David Morrell Quotes

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

David Morrell

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• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Actor

• I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Want
  • Carry

• My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Mother

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Family
  • Success
  • Foundation

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Want
  • Best
  • Challenge

• The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • World
  • Law
  • Eyes

• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Girl
  • Lying
  • Games

• Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Challenges
  • Greatest
  • Privileges

• [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

  

  Jason Katims
  • Good
  • House
  • Party

• The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

  

  David Morrell