Jack Vance Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
Dan Fogelman -
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert -
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee -
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
Yunjin Kim -
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I depend on good editors and a good director.
Indira Varma -
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
Kate Atkinson -
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
Becca Fitzpatrick -
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton -
An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
M. J. Rose -
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
Walter Kirn -
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
Nate Powell -
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
Sabrina Carpenter
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A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris -
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
Penn Jillette -
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Jack Vance