Donald E. Westlake Quotes

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Prove
  • Hype

• I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • First
  • Congress

• I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Business
  • Democrat
  • Progressive

• The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Thing

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Death
  • Freedom

• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Together
  • Birthday

• In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Action

• If you're too disciplined, it can mess up your mind. You need to have that treat for yourself.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • Mind

• What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.

  

  Paul Begala
  • People

• A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Friend
  • Farewell