Stephen Karam Quotes

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Rock
  • Woman
  • Motivated

• I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Surprised
  • Self-Esteem
  • Addict

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I just love dancing.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Love
  • Just
  • Dancing

• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Agreement
  • Unite

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

  

  Annie Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

  

  Edward Bloor
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Night

• If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

  

  Daniel Stern

• The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Wrestling