Heather Donahue Quotes

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Heather Donahue

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• 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

• You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Losing

• I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Business
  • Dying
  • Losing

• I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Play
  • Losing

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• 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

• There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Better
  • Losing

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Losing
  • Whatever

• In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Write
  • Novel
  • Southern

• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Think
  • Stress
  • Losing

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

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Think
  • Novel

• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Door
  • Stories
  • Mysterious

• I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't want to end up losing my soul.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Want

• I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Writing
  • Strange
  • Point

• I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • House
  • Red

• We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • World
  • Novel
  • Edge

• It takes a revolution, to create a solution...

  

  Bob Marley
  • Revolution
  • Solution

• I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • Stories
  • Novel
  • Losing