Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Elizabeth Kostova

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1964

Topics

MoneyFameUpBrought

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

John Cusack

NeverOffComeWanted

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Steve Jobs

TimeYouNewWantTryAsk

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Stephen Sondheim

ServiceYourselfYouDownWorstGet

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

AmericanWayInferiorEveryAfrican

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

Rob Dyrdek

PastBasketballGameThinkEndYou

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

Molly Ivins

InspirationalHomeGodTimeMoral

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

GovernmentMeControlSpeedMeaning

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Jude Law

FaceFamousClothesBecomeOffTook

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

Joss Whedon

PeopleCareYouMoviesHorrorNever

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Don Knotts

GoodTodayTrainingThinkEverything

I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.

Christina Milian

MusicSocial MediaPeopleWorldFree

I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

TimeBlessedSayCraftAnything

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