Andrew Clements Quotes
Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
Andrew Clements
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
Ram Charan
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
Wayne Rogers
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
Earl Weaver
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
Viggo Mortensen
There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
G. Willow Wilson
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
Ted Allen
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith
My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
Natasha Lyonne
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
Alexander Payne
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets
Going to class every day with kids several years older than me pushed me not just socially but mentally. I got to be very comfortable with the feeling of “What the hell is going on here?” because the answer was always “Whatever it is, it’s pretty awesome, because I’m now learning things I didn’t even know existed.” I became a member of the Fake It Till You Make It club, which is a Cheat in and of itself.
Brian Wong
Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
Andrew Clements
