Michael Wolf Quotes
One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
-
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
-
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
-
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
-
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
-
I can't imagine working without and audience.
-
Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
-
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
-
I'm very particular about what I want.
-
The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
-
When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
-
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
-
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
-
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
-
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
-
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; -& they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them.
-
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.
-
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
-
You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.
-
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.
-
In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
-
One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.
