Nicholas Meyer Quotes

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Know
  • Say
  • Old

• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Great
  • Church
  • Style

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Building
  • Development
  • Commercial

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Today
  • Building
  • Ghost

• I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Building

• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Building
  • Pressure

• We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Building

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • God
  • Church

• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • World
  • Best
  • Building

• We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

  

  Orville Wright
  • New
  • Building
  • Feet

• I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Think
  • Father
  • Novel

• Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Building
  • Nation

• I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Body
  • Diet

• It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Friends
  • Mistakes
  • Loyal

• If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don’t ignore problems. Don’t assume it will get better.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Mistake
  • Problems
  • Assume

• Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our bit to support a higher growth rate, but on a durable basis.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Growth

• A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

  

  Nicholas Meyer
  • Building
  • Novel
  • Screenplay