Phil Klay Quotes

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Phil Klay

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Jump
  • Skin
  • Wood

• I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Tears
  • Satisfy
  • Meal

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Emotional
  • Human
  • Page

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Game
  • Best

• I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Writing
  • School
  • Age

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful

• In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Artist
  • Obsessed

• Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Resilience

• When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • Law

• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Parents
  • Support
  • Growth

• I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Girl
  • Nice

• But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

  

  David Bronstein
  • Chess
  • Machine
  • Wonders

• Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Empathy
  • Warrior
  • Resilience