C. S. Forester Quotes
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I like music a lot.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.
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It was a game where our rebounds and defense really failed us and eventually, I had to think about an offensive unit that could do some things to try and catch up. Kobe obviously wasn't right tonight, but this is the second time Blake has scored big against us in critical situations.
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I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
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I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
