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Anger has been ready to be angry.
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa ...
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
Real gs move in silence like lasagna.
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know ...
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And ...
It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.
It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your ...
Man must be free or he will not survive.
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they ...
I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the ...
Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to ...
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the ...
I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious ...
Little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and ...
To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, ...
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You won't have to worry about that. I am writing my own story. And in my story, I get a happy ending. No matter what ...
Below. He heard a clanging noise coming
I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's ...
Henry and I have always talked about partnership, working together to make things work. He's always said he'd never divorce. That divorced rich men are ...
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move.
I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices ...
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
Suffering can kill. Not always physically. But it can kill dreams and it can deaden hope and the will to live.
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining ...
Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In ...
We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.
Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay ...
When the end comes, I hope it's as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors ...
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner ...
It would be arrogant of us for me to say everything at McDonald's is perfect.
If you like music you like silence actually.
What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of ...
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of ...
It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, ...
He is coming, and I am here.
A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Forgive me, Cassie, but Jonas Marsden is hardly an example of well-adjusted behavior!
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
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A game. That's all life is, that's all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to ...
Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.
Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here and exchange notes once we're ...
In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human bodywe do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.
My given name is James.""James Moriarty."..."Really? Sherlock wishes to discuss odd names with me?""And a point to Miss Moriarty."..."You're an idiot. Truly.
Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between ...
He decided not to try to pin her down on that; he had a feeling it was one he wouldn't win. He hadn't known Isabel ...
The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
Beware of false positives: Personalities can affect the signals exhibited by liars. Consider
The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.
Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his ...
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mastIt shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards ...
It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things ...
Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and ...
I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with ...
His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian ...
Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, ...
To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short ...
I'm too old to do things by half.
I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.I will find ...
As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up ...
Georges Claude made a fortune from his neon signs, but lost most of it in the 1930s with hair brained schemes to make electricity using ...
Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it's ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it.
When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then love, power, and spirit are one.
It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the ...
Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was ...
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible ...
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it ... I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed ...
Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk ...
Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it ...
The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six ...
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a ...
Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which ...
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the ...
There's a purpose to knowledge ... salvation. What good are my visions or your visions, beautifully and laboriously worked out in art, if the purpose ...
It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You ...
When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.
Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said ...
We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want ...
Save me from the ones that haunt me in the night.