Elissa Schappell Quotes

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Elissa Schappell

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Characters

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Different
  • Same
  • Clothes

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Roll

• I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Always
  • Motivated

• A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Moments
  • Effort

• 'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God

  

  Laura Nyro
  • God
  • Kindness

• Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Texas

• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Understanding

• Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

  

  Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Talk

• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Experiences
  • Generations
  • Necessity

• A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

  

  Elissa Schappell
  • Truth
  • Manage
  • Exhaustion