Nicholas D'Agosto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

  • Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  • It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  • Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

  • You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

  • Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

  • If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

  • Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

  • Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  • I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.