Amanda McKittrick Ros Quotes
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
Quotes to Explore
-
Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
-
I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
-
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
-
Tom Brokaw was never young.
-
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
-
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
-
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
-
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
-
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
-
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
-
As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
-
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
-
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
-
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
-
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
-
I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
-
Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
-
I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
-
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
-
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
-
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
-
I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
-
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
-
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
