Bert Lance Quotes
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
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The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
