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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In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.
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I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
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For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.
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The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
