Butet Saumur Quotes & Sayings

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you. — Shelley Winters

His accent was deep Louisiana, which meant half the time he wasn't coherent and the other half he was bitching at them for not answering his questions. — Abigail Roux

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls. — Lisa Gardner

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to. — Scott Walker

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are. — Michael Nichols

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. — Chris Hughes

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. — Jerry Saltz

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. — Isaac Asimov

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! — Soren Kierkegaard