Walter Kirn Quotes

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Los Angeles

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Awesome
  • Prepare
  • Soup

• I didn't even start college until I was 21.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • College
  • Start
  • Even

• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Forever
  • Mistakes
  • Decisions

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Honor

• The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Change
  • Growth

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

  

  Ken Bruen
  • Black
  • Waiting
  • Fiction

• The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Money

• My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Ambition
  • Fiction
  • Mine