Catherine Mayer Quotes

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

Catherine Mayer

• Writing
• Book
• Running
• Fit
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• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Enjoy
  • Still
  • Alright

• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Day
  • Living

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Magic

• When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Guy
  • Mom

• Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Time
  • Forever

• When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Help
  • Attention
  • Question

• Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Originality
  • Origin
  • Returning

• Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Band

• The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started to challenge what I thought I knew about myself, my culture, my family, all of it. It was a huge, destroying process that completely took over my life. I just wasn't here, I mean I was physically present, but I wasn't here, I was back in the 1980s.

  

  Damian Barr
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Mean

• Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Discipline
  • Friendship
  • Jesus results

• Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Running