Suzanne Collins Quotes

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Grub first, then ethics.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

It is best to live however one can be.

Truth is what works.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

If you don't eat, don't worry about the farmer.

Every man has a right to bread.

Corne, which is the staffe of life