David Ebershoff Quotes
I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.David Ebershoff
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
Walter Cronkite -
Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
Campbell Scott -
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Barry Eisler -
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
Sam Tsui
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole -
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
Fat Joe -
I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
Pam Dawber
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese -
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger -
My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
T. J. Miller
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No, because Disneyland is not an independent state.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
I think nothing's better than lots of water and a good night's sleep to rejuvenate yourself.
Neil Nitin Mukesh -
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Taye Diggs -
I never wanted to be on a pedestal.
Betsey Johnson -
I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.
David Ebershoff