Stephanie Perkins Quotes
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
-
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
-
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
-
I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
-
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
-
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
-
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
-
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
-
I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
-
If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
-
I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
-
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
-
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
-
I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
-
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
-
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
-
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
-
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
-
You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.
-
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
