Sarah Wayne Callies Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
-
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
-
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
-
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
-
It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
-
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
-
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
-
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
-
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
-
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
-
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
-
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
-
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
-
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
-
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
-
What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
-
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
-
I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
-
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
-
I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.
-
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
-
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
-
With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.
-
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
