Mark Kurlansky Quotes
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
Ralph Lauren -
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
T. C. Boyle -
I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
Kat Dennings -
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount -
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf -
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
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart -
You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal -
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch -
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
Samuel L. Jackson -
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
Gary Larson -
You have to follow that next step.
Laura Moser -
Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
Gary Lineker -
The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
Victoria Moran -
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg
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Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
Carl Lewis -
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
Indra Nooyi -
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
Ramez Naam -
People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
Charlaine Harris -
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I'm friends with Studs Terkel.
Mark Kurlansky