Adam Gidwitz Quotes
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
-
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
-
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
-
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
-
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
-
My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
-
I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
-
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
-
Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
-
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
-
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
-
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
-
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
-
I don't like concrete jungles.
-
If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
-
I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
-
The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.
-
Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
-
I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.
-
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
-
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
