Sue Townsend (Susan Lillian Townsend) Quotes

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Mom

• Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Bible

• I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Music

• We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Why
  • Recovery

• I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Player
  • Tennis

• And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Enemy

• 'The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Personality

• Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Life

• Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

  

  Antonis Samaras

• I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Done
  • Book

• Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Bad

• My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races - now common and accepted - were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Day

• I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

  

  Sue Townsend
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  • Organised
  • Notebooks