G. E. M. Skues Quotes

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

G. E. M. Skues

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Writing
  • Now
  • Plan

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Money
  • Army

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Welcome

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Getting
  • Hospital
  • Parking

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Write

• The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Done
  • She
  • Character

• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Trying
  • Better
  • Said

• I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desires
  • Loves
  • Ultimately

• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Little Things

• You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Art
  • Playing

• I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

  

  G. E. M. Skues
  • Art
  • Fly
  • Fishing