Blaise Pascal Quotes
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
-
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
-
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
-
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
-
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
-
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
-
I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
-
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
-
I write romance because I love to read romance.
-
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
-
I just write mechanical things.
-
I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
-
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
-
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
-
My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
-
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
-
'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
-
I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
-
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-
I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
-
But I want to do good work, after this series.
-
Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.
-
You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.
-
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
