Quotes About Author

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.

I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.

Despite offers, I have never felt the urge to try to make it in Hollywood.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

The idea is not to reinvent myself by venturing into different media because my film career has come to a standstill, but I have the urge to interpret life through different media.

I loved 'Midnight Express' and how 'Chase' had this dark urge to it, like the 'Scarface' theme tune.

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

I'm a sports fan of all sports - college basketball, MLB, NFL - and as a fan, the only sport I feel every week I feel urgency is college football.

Any candidate should put forward a vision and plans that really show how we can move with urgency.

The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort. And only in the most urgent and dire of situations.

With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.

I've always wanted to be part of stories about social justice - urgent, meaningful, substantial dramas.

Never change the URL of your blog. I've done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.