Alan Kotok Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.
-
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
-
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
-
When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
-
You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
-
When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
-
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
-
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
-
I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
-
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
-
Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.
-
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
-
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
-
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
-
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
-
Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
-
When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
-
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
-
I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.
-
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
-
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
-
I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
-
Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.
-
I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.
