Ali Krieger Quotes
If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
-
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
-
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
-
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
-
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
-
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
-
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
-
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
-
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
-
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
-
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
-
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
-
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
-
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
-
It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
-
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
-
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
-
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
-
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
-
The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.
-
If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
