Kevin Whately Quotes

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Thought
  • Better
  • Doing

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Point
  • Aim

• I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Person

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Happy
  • Positive

• If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

  

  Chris Raschka
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  

  David Spade
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • World
  • School
  • Guy

• I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

  

  Kevin Whately
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