J. H. Wyman Quotes
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.
Quotes to Explore
-
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
-
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
-
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
-
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
-
I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
-
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
-
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
-
I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
-
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
-
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
-
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
-
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
-
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
-
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
-
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
-
Music is about the performance.
-
I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
-
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
-
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
-
The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.
-
I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
-
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
-
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.
