S. J. Watson Quotes

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

S. J. Watson

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• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fight

• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Rejection
  • Resilience

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Singing

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Ghost
  • Ever
  • Personally

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • View
  • Too Much

• I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Inspired

• To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Truth

• Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

  

  David Mamet
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Happy
  • Knows
  • Happy Endings