Bill Konigsberg Quotes

A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think, and I haven’t taken even a second to have my own reaction. Weird.

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• My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Story

• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • She
  • Happy

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • May
  • Think
  • Democracy

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Guy
  • Past
  • Goal

• Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Person
  • Yourself
  • Sacred

• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Jazz

• I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Care

• I have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have gotten sucked into it, too; I can't wait for the next one to come out. I am trying to figure out what happens with Harry and Voldemort. So we have been reading that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Belief
  • Persistence
  • Measurement

• When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Peace

• I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

  

  Dafydd ap Gwilym
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Friend

• Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

  

  Van Jones

• Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

  

  Sadie Calvano
  • Energy
  • Space
  • Yoga

• Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • States
  • Source
  • Tax

• I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.

  

  Gemma Cairney
  • Important
  • Love
  • Things

• A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think, and I haven’t taken even a second to have my own reaction. Weird.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
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  • Reaction
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