Dayton Callie Quotes

Sometimes people break your heart enough that it's not heartbreaking anymore.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • History
  • Eyes
  • Forget

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Love
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Tired
  • Author

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Equality

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Balance
  • Humility

• Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Bed

• The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.

  

  Megan Amram
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Live
  • Want
  • Kind

• 'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Life
  • Why
  • Experience

• Sometimes people break your heart enough that it's not heartbreaking anymore.

  

  Dayton Callie
  • People
  • Heart