Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.
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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
