Quotes About Decision

My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.

I'm not wrestling anymore. I'm out of that part of my career.

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

Never regret what you don't write.

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

My mother wanted me to join the Indian army, as the army was seen as a decent and respectable career to have. I shocked my mother by telling her that I wanted to be a writer.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice--just policy

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

Death might be the only way forward for someone. Or it might seem so at the time

All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice.