Laurence Yep Quotes
I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
Laurence Yep
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
Karen Thompson Walker
I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
Rachel Platten
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
Dan Quayle
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt Vonnegut
I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.
Andy Williams
I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
Lauren Groff
Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
Phil Knight
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
Kiefer Sutherland
I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
Laurence Yep
