Iris Johansen Quotes

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

Iris Johansen

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• Suspense

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Love
  • Same
  • Belief

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Roles
  • Position
  • Queen

• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Anniversary

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • People
  • Start
  • Situation

• The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Leader
  • Communism

• I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Thinking
  • Talent
  • Middle

• I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Husband

• And everywhere there were parents – parents mouse-like, parents aggressive, parents ostentatious, parents modest, parents subdued, parents animated: a growing rout lured together under the radiant porcelain sky – and for what? the headmaster wondered. It was improbable that they enjoyed themselves. It was improbable, even, that their offspring enjoyed themselves. And yet there was a glamour about it all which stirred the blood, and the headmaster himself, as he contemplated the spectacle, was not immune.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Enjoyed

• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Suspense