Jodi Picoult Quotes
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
-
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
-
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
-
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
-
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
-
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
-
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
-
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
-
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
-
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
-
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
-
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
-
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
-
At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
-
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
-
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
-
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
-
You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
-
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
-
They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
-
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
-
The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.
-
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
