Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

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

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

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

Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

Survival first, then heartbreak.

Grub first, then ethics.

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.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

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

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

The right must ... yield to the expedient.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

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

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.