Quotes About Author

I'm not motivated to be famous. I'm motivated to be successful. To reach people, I've got to get on TV, I've got to get in with the government, I've got to get on TV abroad.

I miss Kanye. I miss him around; I miss his brilliant energy. Keeps you really motivated... I love it. I love it! He is always ahead of the times. He is inspiring.

It is immensely motivating to be given so much love and appreciation on IMDb, which is the biggest database for movies and celebrities in the world.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I think you are wrong if you play a Champions League game, and you don't find motivation.

It sounds cheesy to say it, but I think my motivation has always been to help others.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He's the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

To be able to drive a rickshaw legally, I had to get an international motorcycle license in L.A., which I have now.

If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.

Adherents of both the constrained and the unconstrained visions each see fascism as the logical extension of the adversary's vision.

In short, attempts to equalize economic results lead to greater—and more dangerous—inequality in political power.

the passing decades have taught me that political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the market elites could ever get away with doing.

Economic policies need to be analyzed according to the incentives they create, and not according to the hopes that inspired them.

You have to know history to appreciate the absurdity of what is called the 'medical model', because it's simply absurd.

Paladin, paladin, choke and twitch, bitten by the Wolf-Blood Witch.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.

McGuire's meaty shoulders recoiled burlily as if from the cold shock of water. 

All serious work in fiction is autobiographical.