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E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

E. L. Konigsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013

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Family Teacher School College Small

In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.

Life Myself Fortunate Every Consider

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

Business Yourself Me Challenges Look

I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

Love Responsibility I Am Happy Proud

I was the first judge in the 'Indian Idol' format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian 'X Factor,' the press would ask, 'Who is Simon Cowell?' And I said 'Why don't you ask Simon Cowell, 'Who is Sonu Nigam?'

Judge Remember You Country Adapt

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

Problems New Crisis Seriously Take

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Father Business Musicians Friends Us

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Authority Reason Rational Being Who

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.

Fire Action Want Movies Pieces Film

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Good Speak Movies Chicken Director

I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face.

Denise Richards

Style Me Face Look Know Right

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

Mad Gems Screen Anymore Them

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Tree Me Swimming Think I Can Living

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