Kevin Kwan Quotes

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

Kevin Kwan

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• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

  

  Major Owens
  • Enemy
  • Greatest
  • Segregation

• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Best
  • Story

• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Career

• See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Love
  • Game
  • Competition

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Life
  • Try

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Book
  • Me
  • Year

• It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Connection

• It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Band
  • Bigger
  • Lifestyle

• I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

  

  Erin Wasson
  • Believe
  • Accessories
  • Intrigue

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Water