Louise Penny Quotes

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

Louise Penny

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• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Children
  • Me
  • Dying

• A secret is a secret in my mind.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Mind
  • Secret

• I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Think
  • Curiosity

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Whole
  • Rather
  • Ethical

• I'm so happy when I'm working.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Working

• I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Accountability
  • Torture

• Life has not been boring for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Me
  • Boring

• More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Sense

• The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Logic
  • Compares

• The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff

• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Guitar
  • Discovered

• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  

  Anatoliy Golitsyn
  • System
  • Mask
  • Russian

• I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

  

  Louise Penny