Kevin Pietersen Quotes

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

Kevin Pietersen

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• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• God makes stars. I just produce them.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • God
  • Stars
  • Just

• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Sex

• It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Song

• I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Living

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Always
  • Made
  • One Thing

• I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Wife
  • Admit
  • Outspoken

• It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Simple
  • Something
  • Nobody

• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Real
  • She
  • Question

• Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Help

• A kind and gentle heart he had,To comfort friends and foes;The naked every day he cladWhen he put on his clothes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Friends

• He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

  

  Andrew Marvell

• I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Life
  • Period

• I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Bad

• It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

  

  Kevin Pietersen