H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I am tone deaf.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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I like to write poetry.
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As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
