Quotes About Author

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.