Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
-
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
-
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
-
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
-
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
-
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
-
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
-
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
-
If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
-
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
-
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
-
Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If you break down, you'll be replaced.
-
I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
-
The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
-
When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
-
Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
-
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
