Peter York Quotes

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

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• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Memory
  • Writer
  • Without

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Learn
  • Legacy

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Theory
  • Experiment
  • Naive

• It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Become

• Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Family
  • Difficult

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Need

• Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Early
  • Racing

• Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Me
  • Spiritual
  • Evidence

• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Walking

• I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Energy
  • Moments

• Being kind is more important than being right.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Be kind

• Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Preparation

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Asking

• A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • I Feel
  • Law Books

• I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Singing
  • Careers
  • Agreement

• I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Words
  • Writers
  • Gifted

• Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

  

  Peter York
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