C.P. Snow Quotes
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.C.P. Snow
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster -
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson -
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Tamara Tunie -
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim -
As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
Nate Robinson -
Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl Marx -
When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
Carine Roitfeld -
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
Jennifer Lynch -
It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
W. G. Sebald -
It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand -
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
Ang Lee -
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
Brian Tracy -
Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
Meghan McCain -
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle -
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
Norman Spinrad
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I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
C.P. Snow