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Aaron Allston Quotes

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1960 - February 27, 2014

Topics

Luck Start Go Way Things Hanging

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

Work Love Business People Challenges

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

Life Music Dark Way Always Take

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Change Great Ego Driving Going Mix

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

Power Day Job Medical Writing Treat

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

Work Modern Seen Because Six Wanted

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.

Deborra-Lee Furness

Good World You Back Self-Esteem

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

Life My Life Kind Happen Out Point

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

History People Me Remember Want

I didn't want to go to college, I didn't want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.

Football College Year Play Go Kind

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

Friends Media Matter Up Makes

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

Relationship Succeed Expectations Our

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Life Step Ideas Climb Calm Look

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