Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

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• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Painting

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Sports
  • Performance

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Done
  • Story
  • Find

• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • American
  • Running
  • Space

• I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Life
  • Me
  • Succeed

• To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Giving

• Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good

• The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • Nature

• ...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • September

• Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Together
  • Random

• I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

  

  David Blaine

• I was in character all the time when I was little.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Time
  • Character

• Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Justice
  • Patience
  • Sorrow

• Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • Success
  • Challenge
  • Progress

• My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Publication

• I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter