H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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On his process for writing novels: I can't imagine what the first sentence is, I can't imagine where I want the reader to enter the story, if I don't know where the reader is going to leave the story. So once I know what the last thing the reader hears is, I can work my way backward, like following a roadmap in reverse.
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I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
