David Morrell Quotes
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'David Morrell
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart -
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
Ted Cruz
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
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.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
Zoe Sugg -
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
Victoria Osteen -
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith -
You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
Parker Posey -
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
Eric Cantona -
We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."
Anthony Robbins -
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
Barack Obama -
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell