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Donald E. Westlake Quotes

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

Donald E. Westlake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1933 - December 31, 2008

Topics

Work World Week Lose Flexible Try

In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.

John Bradshaw

Education Feeling Moral Emotion Word

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Jennifer Aniston

Myself Me Someone Look Sex Know

I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.

Jeff Nichols

Care Structure Narrative Stories How

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Jeff Garlin

You Forget Sometimes Human Audience

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

Amber Heard

Home Job Challenges Night Letting Go

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

Stephen Daldry

Mother Thought You Gay Earth Said

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

Jude Law

Want Passionate Anything About

It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps - and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.

Dionne Bromfield

Love Good God Lion Child Fat

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Dick Bruna

Work Amazing Thought Try Up Get

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.

Debbie Ford

God Day Forward Choice Will Become

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

Anna Sui

Stars People Thought Interesting Way

I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about.

Sharron Angle

Children Government Tea Think Down