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I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the ...

We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off ...

Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it ...

I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly."You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a ...

When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide ...

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back ...

If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for ...

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that's Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life's great ...

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, ...

What are they going to do about it?""So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them ...

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why ...

Only the lame could love and only the maimed could mourn

I'm just a stalker.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This ...

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a ...

In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with ...

Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every ...

What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd ...

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything.""Says the man who'd just ...

Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in that, I'm just ...

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point ...

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

When I walk between the rain drops, I never get wet.' Taken from ENEMY WITHIN, due out next year

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they ...

Choices are the hinges of destiny

I stared at the screen, aware that my heart rate had sped up. Sped up? I was so angry I wanted to ram my fist ...

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years ...

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and ...

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're ...

You put a sleep spell on me, didn't you?" she grumbled. "You'll thank me for it later," Lucivar replied, kissing her temple. I love you. ...

The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly ...

I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar ...

Many historians contend that Laozi actually lived in the 4th century BC, which was the period of Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody ...

In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, ...

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break ...

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, ...

I love New York. I love the Yankees. I love the fans here.

The rare derpicus man is know to live near the himalayas, in a cave made purely of dead weevils. His native tounge is unknown, but ...

She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a wayfarer, ...

The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars universe. Sometimes such ...

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics ...

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American ...

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm ...

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? ...

You know that you know the truth, so what's it matter what others think they know about you?

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, ...

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of ...

There are a lot of great inventors and improvers in the world. But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can ...

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews ...

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made ...

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. ...

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not ...

This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating." "Well, it wasn't.

Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...

Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies ...

You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing ...

The dicey moment when you should introduce two people but can't remember one of their names; whomnesia, persona non data, nomenclutchure, notworking, mumbleduction, introducking

As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, ...

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are ...

You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole ...

There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything ...

The Battle of the Boyfriends since they almost got Adam Sandler to come judge the year after The Wedding Singer was in theaters." Her phone ...

Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.Cherish and remember those moments, but do not ...

Its like a button in my brain is broken, like i've developed a disease that forces me to apologize for everything, for existing, for wanting ...

Rough night?" Zay asked."Oh, no. Glorious, thanks. Mum had me cross-checking data on solid Veiled all damn night.Fuckin' A, there better be a shot of ...

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don't know what I would have done without that positive boost.

On religions: He who knows one, knows none.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...

Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk ...

One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the ...

She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, Abbie, I'm going to take you to that ...

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice ...

I am the eggmanThey are the eggmen!I am the walrus!

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put ...

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a ...

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake ...

He bit his lip, struggling to make words out of the war waging itself in his chest."I don't know what this makes me," he managed ...

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

Shakespearewhetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.