Me Quotes
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
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It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
