Andy Weir Quotes

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Love
  • I Can
  • Boat

• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Work Hard

• Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Up
  • Sea

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sense

• It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Remember
  • Young
  • First

• I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Ending

• I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Reading

• You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Business

• First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Director

• The world is changing much too fast for us to have a moribund system which is not flexible, which cannot evolve and develop with changes in our society, in our country, as they come about in the world.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • World
  • Country
  • Society

• To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • World
  • May
  • Girl

• Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • God
  • American
  • Mother

• When I'm at the bottom, she's Hillary Rodham!

  

  Lil Wayne
  • She

• Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Great

• I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Attention
  • Rock
  • Star

• Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Time
  • Young
  • Events

• I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • College
  • Learning
  • Classroom

• If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

  

  Andy Weir