Khaled Hosseini Quotes

The deal is such that when I begin writing something, I open a door, and those characters come in, and then they won't leave, and so I live with them every day, all day. They are there with me when I'm driving my kids to school, when I'm standing in line at the grocery store.

Khaled Hosseini

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LiveDaySchoolMeDoorWriting

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Sigmar Polke

WorkMeElementRisk-Taking

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Robert De Niro

WorkRespectBestDo Your BestMe

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

GoodMannersLyingGood MannersHalf

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

Mike Trout

PeopleYouLookTroubleFirstHead

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

WaterRiverYouPigParisOut

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

Miranda Otto

TimeMeMediaKindRingsBig

The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

Anna Wintour

TodayPeopleFearlessYoungHire

When you look at women and what's sexy right now, I feel like we're finally back to a curvaceous healthy body rather than just skinny with fake boobs.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

WomenFakeSexyYouBodyLook

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

Arthur Hertzberg

PeopleLawThoughtEnoughYouKnow

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

Wiz Khalifa

GoodAgePeopleMeNameYoung

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

William Hazlitt

GoodTemperGreatestFeatures

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Pranab Mukherjee

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