Andrew Pyper Quotes

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

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• Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Without

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Road

• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Children
  • Money
  • Wife

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Me
  • Years
  • Old

• LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Children
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• The Internet is a toilet. It is.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Internet
  • Toilet

• It's no use crying over spilt summits.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Use
  • Crying
  • Over

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

  

  Martin Mull
  • People
  • Dream
  • Reality

• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Political
  • Language
  • Silly

• I see dance as glue for a community.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Community
  • Dance

• I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not out of wickedness, but because everybody else in Eurasia was so completely destroyed by the Second World War. Economically, that was quite a useful time for the US, so they ended up in the position of enormous power. And like any great power, they're going to act in their own interests. The problem is due to what the business community wants, which is to make as much money as they can out of what other people do and pay as little as possible for it.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

  

  Jerry O'Connell
  • Boxing

• I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Community