Liz Trotta Quotes

I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • World
  • Me
  • End

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• I love running and I will always run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Running
  • Always
  • Will

• I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Enough
  • Old
  • Without

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  

  Dan Burton
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Safe

• If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Children
  • Want

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

  

  Victor Hugo

• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World

• It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • True
  • Political

• It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Quality
  • Emotional

• It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Star
  • First

• As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.

  

  J Balvin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

  

  Rumi
  • Ocean
  • Break
  • Pieces

• The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • People
  • Political
  • Landscape

• I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.

  

  Liz Trotta