V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.V. S. Naipaul
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller -
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville -
I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
Venus Williams -
People love to be told what they know already.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
Nancy Reagan
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Hannibal Buress -
I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
Flume -
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White -
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne -
I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
Imelda May -
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne -
You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
Patrick Wilson -
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali -
One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
Taye Diggs
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
Gary Oldman -
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Walter Smith -
I am not a player.
Marat Safin -
The true poem rests between the words.
Vanna Bonta -
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul