Warren Adler Quotes

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Warren Adler

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• I'm as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Driven
  • Pure
  • Slush

• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Crime
  • Movement

• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Change
  • Revolution
  • Determination

• There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Child

• I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • America
  • Team

• A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Life
  • Winning
  • Frustration

• If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Theatre

• There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • People
  • Money
  • Competition

• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Running

• I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Friends

• 'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Funny
  • Emotional
  • Scary

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Space
  • Amazing
  • Looking

• The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

  

  Warren Adler
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Scary