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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli:Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.

  

  Ovid

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Car

• I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Religious

• How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Cool

• I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

  

  Brian J. White
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • Dad
  • Mom

• For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Night

• You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.

  

  James Lovegrove
  • College
  • Boy
  • Summer

• 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