Arthur Slade Quotes

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

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• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur
  • News

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Think
  • Control
  • Seem

• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Opportunity
  • Water
  • Sea

• A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Principles
  • Him
  • Carry

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Day
  • Last

• I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Public Opinion

• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Believe
  • Buried
  • Band's Over

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Forget
  • Singers
  • Songwriters

• Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

  

  Arthur Slade
  • Believe