Paul S. Kemp Quotes

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

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• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Economy

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Big

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Taken

• I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

  

  Pitbull
  • Time
  • Light

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

  

  Trisha Yearwood

• I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.

  

  Lauren Oliver
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

  

  Margaret Whiting
  • She
  • Party
  • Couple

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.

  

  Mark Lippert

• I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • People

• People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
  • People
  • Language
  • Saying

• My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Writing
  • Goal
  • Stories