Jean M. Auel Quotes

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Jean M. Auel

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Pictures

• I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Me
  • Strength
  • Interested

• Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Boy

• Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • American
  • America

• I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Writing