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You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing ...

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. ...

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; ...

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at ...

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort.

But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.

Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is.

First you invite your brother's kids here. Now you want to do a play. What's next? A cruise?""What's with your family and suggesting cruises?" she ...

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them ...

[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels ...

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to ...

I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure ...

I can reprint it. And ... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet."The remorse fled quickly. "Over ...

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every ...

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, ...

There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the ...

Our anti-crisis policy is directed to internal demand support, social security of citizens and creation of new jobs. Like many other countries, we are reducing ...

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the ...

OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to ...

Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the ...

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too ...

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, ...

My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb ...

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee ...

What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New ...

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who ...

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, ...

It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no ...

The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly ...

Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal ...

When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

I'm single by choice. Not my choice.

Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does ...

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad ...

I squeeze his hand and give him fifteen words that mean everything. It's okay to sleep now, Dad. I know that one day, we'll be ...

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my ...

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

However, twelve former Sea Org members told me that Miscavige had assaulted them; twenty-one have told me or testified in court that they have witnessed ...

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. ...

I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of ...

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

Watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold ...

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do ...

Oregano is the spice of life.

A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak.

For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as ...

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking ... I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without ...

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths ...

Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming ...

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of ...

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts ...

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this ...

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

But somehow or other my intimacy with them was always strained and soon ended of itself. Once, indeed, I did have a friend. But I ...

Plus, anyone who wants to clone himself is usually an asshole. You don't want any more of those running around than absolutely necessary." "So

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have ...

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had ...

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us ...

Everyone chats and smiles, chats about nothing, shouts and drinks themselves silly occasionally or all the time. They they die one fine day, old or ...

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound ...

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

Omally shook his head. 'Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.

He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something ...

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we ...

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, ...

I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You ...

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

True that life is given,And received. But truer still:The single-act of givingMakes the offerer the beggar, too -

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back ...

I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our ...

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege ...

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the ...

Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

It is not only impolitic and injudicious to even attempt to think ouside a box with a linearly skewed, acutely constrained and partial view. I ...

Him about money. He suggested a weekly wage, I agreed, and once a year he told me he'd upped it a bit, usually by a ...

A thing cannot be delivered enough times:this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.To loop out and come back is ...

I don't like being followed by you, Zach. In fact, I just don't like you. So stay out of my way.

From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's ...

I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, ...