Nina Bawden Quotes

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

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• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Done
  • Know

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

  

  Maluma
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Myself

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Work
  • Future
  • Story

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Success

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Like
  • Point

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Charity

• I'm not going to anticipate the outcome of the discussions. I hope they will be successful.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Hope
  • Successful
  • Outcome

• As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers

• A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Autobiography