Ian Frazier Quotes
A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
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We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
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Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
