Mariken Van Quotes & Sayings

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages. — Kristen McNulty

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. — Michael Lewis

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast. — Tony Kushner

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know. — Dean Koontz

Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how this community has helped drive our economy forward through hard work and ingenuity. — Nydia Velazquez

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness. — Neville Cardus

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing. — Pablo Neruda

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. — Jaggi Vasudev

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit. — Donald Sutherland

I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show. — Dennis Quaid

That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening. — Joan Bennett

To fight for what I want. I never expect forgiveness for my atrocious acts. — Shaine Lake

Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period. — Barry Diller

It's a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold. — Terry A. O'Neal

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody ... — Seneca The Younger