Steve Toltz Quotes
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Quotes to Explore
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
