John Burdett Quotes

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

John Burdett

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MeWritingEnoughSecurityComfort

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

John Lurie

MusicHappyBe HappyYouKnowJust

All the media have their own award presentations.

Robert Preston

MediaAwardOwn

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

John Shelby Spong

NatureThinkUniverseBootsPerson

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

RuPaul

BusinessWorldJudgeLadyLookUp

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

Marvin Harris

SayingThinkInterestingQuestions

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

Michael Korda

ExperienceI AmLunchMeetingsYou

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

LeadershipFailureConfidenceDay

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Conrad Black

LifeFreedomWorldThinkingHonor

I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.

Corey Stewart

I AmExpertBelievesForemostAm

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

Keith Urban

RandomSometimesCryJustStuff

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

Kimberly Caldwell

HairPiecesThingsBigFeatherLike

You've made the time to go to the gym, so don't just go through the motions.

Gretchen Bleiler

TimeYouGymGoThroughJust

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