{"author":"Michael Korda","author_id":"Michael+Korda","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["cats","free"],"id":8276,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["rules","look","you "],"id":9280,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["father","design","successful "],"id":21353,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["good","not good enough "],"id":27743,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["life","people","human "],"id":29728,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["good","great","war "],"id":70581,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["money","people","years "],"id":94334,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["walk","study","hidden "],"id":112035,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["journey","history","myself "],"id":114444,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"},{"text":"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.","author":"Michael Korda","tags":["success","happiness","happy "],"id":123311,"author_id":"Michael+Korda"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}