Brad Meltzer Quotes
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.Brad Meltzer
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann -
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
Carlene Carter -
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
Zubin Mehta -
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
Aaron Lazar -
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
Calvin Harris -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady -
I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
Valerie Plame -
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker
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You can't work all your life.
Marion Cotillard -
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames -
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
Aristotle -
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
Ricky Reed -
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Joanne Rowling -
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
Brad Meltzer