John Joseph Adams Quotes

Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Think
  • Nature

• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Great
  • Culture

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.

  

  Watt Key
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Stand

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Respect
  • Show

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Light
  • Style
  • Creativity

• The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Will
  • Unite

• When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Job
  • Success
  • Engineering

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Career

• Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Good
  • Bad

• Whatever hair color I have on my head, that's what decides what type of outfit I'm going to wear, because not everything goes with your hair color. That's why I switch it up.

  

  Cardi B
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hair

• Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.

  

  John Joseph Adams
  • Career