Quotes About Author

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

I really liked 'Heist,' and that seems to be a popular favourite, but I think my personal favourite was 'Hero at 30,000 ft,' about the guy who ended up landing the aeroplane.

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

Andrade had fame and popularity in Mexico, and he experienced that same fanfare when he made his NXT debut.

Anirudh is phenomenal. His popularity among the youth is to be seen and heard to be believed.

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

'Battletar' took a while to kinda permeate out into pop culture generally. It hit first with the science-fiction fan community, then the critics, and then it kind of went to the general population.

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

It's a very beautiful word, populism. I'm proud to be a populist.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.