William Trevor Quotes

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

William Trevor

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Work
  • House

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Change

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• 'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Nice

• I'd definitely like to be one of the best golfers in the world, of all time.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Time
  • World

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Time
  • Writing
  • House

• I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • History

• People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

  

  William Trevor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Articulation