Brad Meltzer Quotes

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

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• Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

  

  Harry Browne
  • America
  • Say
  • Someone

• I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Change

• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • You
  • Kind
  • Same

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Man
  • Hand

• I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.

  

  Kaskade
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Year

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Age
  • Learn
  • Resilience

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Country
  • Think
  • Investment

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Artist
  • Successful
  • Greatest

• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • Air
  • Conflict

• The majority of my work is about preparation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Preparation
  • Majority

• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • May

• A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Joy
  • Grandchildren

• Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • May

• The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Innocent

• There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Ignorance
  • Events

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

  

  Brad Meltzer