Nicole Krauss Quotes

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

Nicole Krauss

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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

Carlo Ponti
- Work
- Art
- Perfect
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird
- Time
- Work
- End
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

Fleur East
- People
- Good
- Bad
I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

Dallas Roberts
- Night
- Waiting
- Kid
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

R. Kelly
- People
- Life
- Time
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

Kabir Bedi
- World
- Successful
- Miracle