James Clavell Quotes
Changi became my university instead of my prison. … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
-
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
-
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
-
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
-
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
-
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
-
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
-
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
-
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
-
I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
-
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
-
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
-
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
-
Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
-
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
-
I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.
-
Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
-
Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.
-
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
-
Changi became my university instead of my prison. … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
