Susan Isaacs Quotes

There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.

Susan Isaacs

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• I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Inspire

• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Design
  • Working
  • Houses

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Great
  • Song
  • Voice

• One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Me
  • Cup

• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Want
  • Society

• I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Pretty
  • Air
  • Place

• Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Like
  • Film
  • Very

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Time
  • May
  • Stupid

• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  

  Pauline Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Military
  • Forces
  • Diffuse

• Once there was a certain man who was very clever, but it was his character to always see the negative points of his jobs. In such a way, one will be useless.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Character
  • Clever

• There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.

  

  Susan Isaacs
  • Character
  • Novel
  • Plot