Ian Cameron Esslemont Quotes

I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

Ian Cameron Esslemont

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• Ozzy has dyslexia.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Dyslexia
  • Ozzy

• I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Lose
  • Race

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Only
  • Got

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Tale
  • Conflicts

• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Thought

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Never
  • Read
  • Mockingbird

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Great
  • Business
  • Drive

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Glamour

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

  

  Daphne Zuniga
  • People
  • Real
  • Poverty

• But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

  

  Adin Ballou
  • Truth
  • Argument
  • Error

• I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

  

  Ian Cameron Esslemont
  • People
  • Important
  • Truth