Craig Johnston Quotes

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Craig Johnston

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• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Football
  • Watch

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Wants
  • Turn

• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• Go out as far as you can go and start from there.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Start
  • Go
  • Far

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Father

• People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reading

• The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Kids
  • Reality