When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations… so I’m just trying to meet those. I’m not going to distract myself with other people’s expectations. – Hannah Kent
I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually. – Helen Garner
One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title. – Herb Kelleher
As a professional journalist, I’ve been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I’ve learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised. – Hector Tobar
There’s a good lesson for policymakers: It’s not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it’s the type of presence we bring. – Ian Lustick
I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to. – George Tenet
I’d say that I’m super proud of only four or five things I’ve done, but mostly I’d like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching. – Gil Bellows
A lot of actors look at scripts and think, ‘How will this stretch me as an actor?’ But I always thought, ‘Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?’ – Hugh Grant
I’m always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. – Ian MacKaye
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it. – Hideo Kojima
I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action. – Howard Schultz
I’m very interested in heritage restoration, and I’m working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history. – Hugh Masekela
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical. – Haruki Murakami
With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You’re all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that. – Haylie Duff
It’s all about proving it on the track and proving to people that have different views wrong. – Greg Rutherford
For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk. – Glen Taylor
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That’s leadership. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. – Harry Mathews
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once. – Ian K. Smith
If fiction changes things, it’s usually because it’s a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us. – Gillian Cross
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians. – Harry Connick, Jr.
‘Twilight’ passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare. – Holly Black
I’ve played with so many people that I never really noticed that I was playing with so many people until after it was compiled on the Internet. I just kept going. I haven’t even heard half the records I’ve played on, to tell you the truth. – Harvey Mason, Jr.
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We’ve got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers – and there could be a lot of them – will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up. – Howard Schultz
