Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes
I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
Nas
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
Pam Ferris
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
Damien Chazelle
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
Laura Marano
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Victor Pinchuk
Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
Patricia Schroeder
My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there is nothing to worry. I tell her I have my driver, I have my security.
Rakul Preet Singh
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
Walter Russell Mead
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
Joe Eszterhas
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
Alexandra Fuller
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
Danny K. Davis
You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything.
Nicolas Flamel
There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
Anna Kournikova
I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.
Charles D'Ambrosio
