Raina Telgemeier Quotes
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
Quotes to Explore
-
Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
-
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
-
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
-
Writers should provoke disagreement.
-
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
-
I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
-
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
-
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
-
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
-
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
-
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
-
I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
-
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
-
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
-
I am an artist who works with Lego.
-
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.
-
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
-
When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.
-
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
-
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
-
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
