C. S. Forester Quotes
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
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'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
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If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.
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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
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To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
