Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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• The art of life is to show your hand.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hand

• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Story
  • Generation
  • Jews

• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Soul
  • Building
  • Smell

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Innovation
  • Living

• Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Up
  • New
  • Speed

• I've been engaged a couple times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Couple
  • Been
  • Engaged

• Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Music
  • Think
  • Early

• Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Chance
  • Search
  • Lead

• There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Inspired

• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Age

• Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

  

  Scott Turow
  • World
  • Reading
  • Drug

• Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Time
  • Comedy

• I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson