Liane Moriarty Quotes

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Country
  • Heroes

• History's a resource.

  

  Laura Linney
  • History
  • Resource

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Child

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Political
  • Democracy

• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Man
  • Greatness

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Always

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

  

  Amanda Warren
  • School
  • Done
  • Education

• I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

  

  Shakira
  • Up
  • Career
  • Taken

• I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

  

  Liane Moriarty
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