Doug Larson Quotes

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

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• Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thing

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Tired
  • Athlete

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Going
  • Comfortable
  • Fact

• If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Today
  • Year
  • Memory

• After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Interesting

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Going
  • Bed
  • Before

• Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • School
  • Fun
  • Child

• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Art
  • Inspire
  • Bores

• NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• She turned to Gansey.'Blue,' he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, 'I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She
  • Car
  • Blue

• Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Dark
  • Star

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Education

• There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Entering

• In both the mystical and the paranormal there seems to be a kind of direct knowing, not mediated by the usual routines of the intellect. In both a kind of shift of consciousness occurs, a kind of turning inward that reveals another world.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • World
  • Consciousness
  • Intellect

• If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.

  

  Norman Lloyd
  • Audience
  • Exciting
  • Compete

• Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Star

• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

  

  Paul Auster

• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

  

  Doug Larson