Michael Korda Quotes

English - Novelist Born: October 8, 1933

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Motivational Goals Way Momentum Keep

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

World Succeed Rise Accept

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

Best Strong You Know

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition Worth Hypocrisy Ounce

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

Pleasure Cookies Lies Make

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success Achievement Distance Easy

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Power Game Bad Care

When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.

Good War Great Child

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

Think Drawing Bad Cigarette

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

War Great World World War I

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Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

Women Simple Dress Black

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Work Me Man Yourself

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.

Pain Equality Society True

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Best World Curiosity Writing

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.

War World More Camel

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Birthday Father Boy Lunch

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

Family Me Business Child

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

Great Experience Book White

The real fans do not just admire the star of their choice, they identify with him or her, while the star, unlike Joan Crawford, comes to need the fans' love, admiration, and constant interest.

Love Need Choice Admire

I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, 'vaut le voyage.'

Words Unique Living Like

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Business Look You Succeed

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Good Moment You Action

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Moment Luck Situation Always

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

Me Time Looking People

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

Stars People Believe Ego

Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to - Richard Nixon!

Great Famous Always Questions

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