Sud Quotes

#1. 903AL RAGHIF is now available in French (LE PAIN) beautifully translated by Fifi Abou Dib. Check it out!
Publisher: Acte Sud/ L'Orient des livres

Toufic Youssef Aouad

#2. Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

#3. By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud

#4. As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

Scott Ian

#5. It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.

Veena Sud

#6. It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm really blessed with a lot of great partners, including my writing staff. Being able to rely on the people around me has really helped out.

Veena Sud

#7. While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

Andrea Bocelli

#8. Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

Veena Sud

#9. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell

#10. Everything you do is a one-way street.

Michael Marshall Smith

#11. I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.

G. Willow Wilson

#12. Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in our world, we could find all those unexpected moments and twists and turns that we didn't even see ourselves.

Veena Sud

#13. He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Hesiod

#14. We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.

Veena Sud

#15. Dobby, sir. Just Dobby. Dobby the house-elf, said the creature.

J.K. Rowling

#16. I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

Lauren Lapkus

#17. I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.

Veena Sud

#18. The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Miguel De Cervantes

#19. I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.

Veena Sud

#20. Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#21. If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and draw down on them. Having spent time with that, it can be an incredibly terrifying job.

Veena Sud

#22. The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

Veena Sud

#23. I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.

Veena Sud

#24. And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

Veena Sud

#25. I've always been a very competitive person.

Kenneth Chenault

#26. Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Dean Kamen