Phil Klay Quotes

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Phil Klay

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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  • Medium
  • Pen

• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Love
  • Running
  • Speak

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World
  • American
  • Beautiful

• Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Government
  • Growth

• I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings.

  

  Justin Scott
  • People
  • Black

• Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.

  

  David Milch
  • True
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Book