Charles Cumming Quotes

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

Charles Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 5, 1971

Topics

LifeLiveRespectPeopleBetterYou

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

John Battelle

PassionSchoolSorryCareerDigital

Being a pro wrestler can be kind of difficult sometimes. We have a perception about what we do - and I totally understand the perception, because we're a weekly episodic program, and we're having fun all the time, so people think that's kind of the most talented thing I could do.

John Cena

TimeBe KindFunPeopleHaving Fun

Sounding bitter is not a good look. Less so if you're retired.

Andre Ward

GoodYouLookBitterLessRetired

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

YouWriteYoursMovieNovelHundred

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Simon Travaglia

ChangeFearPersonalityThink

I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.

Mary Berry

ProudNameSomeoneLettersBeenUse

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

ChildrenPlayGamesPlayingSeen

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

David Zucker

BestThinkFishSeriousDoneMovies

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Chris Hardwick

KidGoneAdultBeingNerdsBullied

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Christopher McQuarrie

DogSuccessYouBadHollywoodNever

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

Shekhar Kapur

WorldIndiaPrejudiceMoreRacial

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

Sean Hayes

DeathPeopleWriteDigSomething

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