Eoin Colfer Quotes

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dignity

• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm painfully middle class.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Middle-class

• After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • School
  • London

• If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Something
  • Before
  • Shy

• I have worked hard to get where I am.

  

  Chris Pine

• If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Victim

• I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Reading
  • Television
  • Cinema

• The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

  

  Eoin Colfer
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