Kareem Mortimer Quotes

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

Kareem Mortimer

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• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Success
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Fun
  • Successful
  • Have Fun

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!

  

  BeBe Winans
  • True
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Kind
  • Connection

• Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

  

  Edgar Cayce

• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Fear
  • Coward

• I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.

  

  Andy Murray

• I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

  

  Joan Chen

• I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

  

  Kerry Washington

• It's amazing - you know, you just look up, and you say, 'Wow, that's amazing.' It's 25,000 people only on one side, so of course you enjoy it. Every time when you go on the pitch, it's just crazy. They know when we need some energy; they have a button, so it's perfect. But you feel it; you feel it, of course.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  

  Connie Francis
  • True
  • Friend
  • Italian

• We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

  

  David Hanson
  • World
  • Age

• When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

  

  Jim Matheson
  • Service

• Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Great
  • Important

• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • God
  • Movement
  • Consciousness

• The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Business

• The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

  

  Kareem Mortimer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Discipline