Gail Honeyman Quotes

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

Gail Honeyman

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Serious

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Find

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Energy

• My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Wish

• If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • People
  • American
  • Trust

• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Brain

• This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • May
  • Fear