Irvin S. Cobb Quotes
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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All sorts of thoughts go through your head, 'this can't be happening to us, we don't deserve this' but Hoggy held his nerve and when you are out there you do feel you are in control.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
