Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Struggle
  • Questions

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • More
  • Cash
  • Programmer

• I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Want
  • Act

• I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Great
  • Country
  • Day

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

  

  Alexander Hamilton

• I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.

  

  Danny Meyer

• My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • She
  • America
  • Grandmother

• We did not pay for favors.

  

  Jay Y. Lee

• Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Time
  • Different

• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Psychology

• I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Music
  • Country
  • Opinion

• Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Interesting

• I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

  

  Chris Cooper

• I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Help
  • Dream

• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  

  Steven Wright
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Distance