James Salter Quotes
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
Quotes to Explore
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
-
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
-
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
-
I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
-
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
-
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
-
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
-
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
-
I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
-
I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
-
My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
-
Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
-
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
-
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
-
Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
-
The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
-
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
-
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
