Marti Noxon Quotes

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

Marti Noxon

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• As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Journey

• Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • May
  • Know
  • Values

• The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Here
  • Middle East
  • Improved

• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Together

• I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

  

  Halsey
  • Me
  • Running
  • City

• I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

  

  Inbee Park
  • American
  • Golf
  • Younger

• 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Kind
  • Loved
  • Hotel

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Team
  • Enjoy

• I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wife
  • Violence

• If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good

• The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Painter
  • Guess
  • Beholder

• The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

  

  Allan Lokos
  • Peace
  • Care
  • Happiness

• I don't want anyone to follow me on Twitter if they're looking for anything interesting or mature.

  

  Lauren German
  • Interesting
  • Twitter
  • Mature

• When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Lie
  • Shame
  • Deliberate

• Money grants you freedom, I guess.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Money
  • Freedom

• I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

  

  Marti Noxon