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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
Books should cost less and they should be digital.
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a ...
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
You have to know how to disappear.
Do you recognize them now, Lando?" Varga was smiling. He couldn't breathe.
You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain ...
Sanitation is more important than Independence.
Beauty lies in the purity of Heart,looking good is just called prettiness.
She was enchanting. He loved the notes she wrote in her pretty handwriting, the way she smelled, like oranges and dough, the savage blackness of ...
If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that ...
I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
Treasure is what you have and not what you think it is.
Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it
I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps ...
When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor ...
In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.
The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.
He's not just yours today, Sam. You have to share. He's my brother, and he's leaving me too." He pounded again on the door. "This ...
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in ...
Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30
The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they ...
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a ...
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.
Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ...
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
We yogied this from day hikers for you.
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've ...
When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
Life is like a puzzle just fit in the missing parts
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I ...
Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions.
Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.
What gets measured gets better
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ...
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
The history of breast milk substitutes is a reminder that they've always been needed, but only in very recent human history has science allowed for ...
No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'
I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.
You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials
I want to be a living work of art
There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there ...
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
If we want a miracle, we've got to surrender all our faith.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Remember: Inspired Children Become Empowered Adults That Help Brighten Humanity!Bullying Ben
I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts.
I have become used to swallowing insults for so long that I am almost insensitive; yet
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to ...
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise ...
Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.
Keep your enemies in front of you.
Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.
The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed ...
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
Ty crawled over him again, pressing him to the mattress and kissing him until they were both breathless. "I'll make sure of it tonight. Now ...
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
Shhhh. Don't cry, Ronnie. Just tell me what we like, so I can remember. Because I lost my way, baby.
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of ...
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite ...
Her mother gave her strict instructions to follow the school phone policy and not use it until after the final bell rings. If she violates ...
I am human. I talk and I listen and I read.
Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need ...
I do so hate to leave this world.
Don't try to rush progress. Remember a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say ...
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
A statue of Mary, sheltered inside, implied infinite peace. A listening ear. A willingness to give you the benefit of the doubt. God knew what ...
So visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle
Michal too would catch one last glimpse of him in a dream. In 1958 she told a friend: I dreamt of Charles the other night. ...
The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted ...
I'm so sorry." He reached up his hand and covered mine. "No, I'm sorry," he said. "I was about to ruin both our lives.
Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.
The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me ...
I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.
You can't be responsible for anyone but you, Cole. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but ...
They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
When you would think,"what was the use of it,"you'll remembersomething you can't graspand you'll wonderwhat it was.
New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you ...
It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to ...
When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get ...
I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden ...
The key word in Acts 1:3 is alive. Jesus showed Himself alive. Here are some of the infallible proofs He showed to verify His resurrection.
He lowered his face to hers and spoke against her mouth. I don't want to imagine you not in my life.
Desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are ...
I don't think I have dreams anymore. I think they all died the same day I did, back on that sunny afternoon in spring.
I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially ...