Emma Roberts Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
John Boehner is a friend.
-
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
-
We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
-
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
-
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
-
I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
-
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
-
It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
-
In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.
-
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
-
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
-
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
-
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
-
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
-
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
-
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
-
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
-
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
-
When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
-
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
-
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
-
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.
-
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.
-
I'm obsessed with heels.
