David Selby Quotes

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

David Selby

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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Writing
  • Choices

• I just really love being in my pajamas.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Being
  • Really

• Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Best
  • Year
  • Lucky

• A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Smart

• I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Day

• Laila (at fourteen years): What would your mother say when she saw you smoke?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Mother
  • Smoke

• It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Age
  • Couple
  • Fire

• We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.

  

  Alexandra Stoddard
  • Live
  • Taught
  • Unlearn

• Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Believe
  • Work Hard
  • Have Faith

• But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

  

  David Selby