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

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• 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
  • Idea
  • Daughter

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• 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

• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Rule
  • Rule Of Law

• 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

• I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

  

  Gayle King
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Happens

• There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

  Colson Whitehead

• 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
  • Scary
  • Firsts