Donald E. Westlake Quotes
For me, the characters are part of the story, and come out of its development. I don't base them on people, or parts of people – the Frankenstein method. I base them on what I've noticed about the human race. … I cannot tell you how stories develop. I have an initial idea, and start telling myself the story, day by day.
Donald E. Westlake
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
Sally Mann
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Joanne Rowling
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower
I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
Zac Goldsmith
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. Taylor
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
Victoria Moran
I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.
Kenneth C. Griffin
When I am not working, my family are the most important.
Antonio Conte
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
Vernon Howard
For me, the characters are part of the story, and come out of its development. I don't base them on people, or parts of people – the Frankenstein method. I base them on what I've noticed about the human race. … I cannot tell you how stories develop. I have an initial idea, and start telling myself the story, day by day.
Donald E. Westlake
