Michael Korda Quotes - BrainyQuote

English - Novelist Born: October 8, 1933

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

Motivational Goals Way Momentum Keep

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 Lunch Boy

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

World Succeed Accept Rise Above

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

Cookies Pleasure Lies Make

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 Society Equality True

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

Success Achievement Easy Distance

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 You Strong Know

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition Worth Hypocrisy Pound

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

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.

Drawing Think Cigarette Bad

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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 Yourself Man

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 Care Bad

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 White Book

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

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

Men Die Who Comrades

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

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

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

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

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 Real Choice Need

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

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

Best World Curiosity Writing

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 People Looking

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Believe You Will Hear

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Life Art Nothing Except Significance

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