Eoin Colfer Quotes

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

Eoin Colfer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 14, 1965

Topics

DayBookYouBackYoungMeet

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Jodie Foster

JobMeGrayWhereGray AreaPart

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

Jerry Spinelli

DayJobPeopleLookingEndForget

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Jello Biafra

SchoolCityAttentionImportant

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

PeopleLookRunTryThingsWho

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

Matthew Vaughn

MusicExperienceSoulThinkHead

I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

John Polson

GreatFocusDayI AmTeamYou

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never signed the release form we received from the producers. I am both proud and ashamed of this fact.

Josh Gondelman

ChildhoodI AmProudStoryFriends

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

Jonny Wilkinson

MyselfMeWorldEnoughInjuriesSay

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.

Denis Norden

TimeExperienceWarSameAudience

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

Daya

LifeI AmTryingRelationshipsWhy

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Anthony Hopkins

LiveChildhoodI AmAmericaWeekGo

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Ava DuVernay

LifeWorkReflectionValuePeople

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Eoin Colfer