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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Help
  • Know
  • Daughter

• Uchimura is the greatest of all time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Greatest

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Control
  • Look

• I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Skin
  • Bleaching

• Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Know

• My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Friends
  • Sleep
  • Forget

• I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Favorite
  • Directors

• When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Congress

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • America
  • Future

• The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Experience
  • True

• I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Responsible
  • Speculate

• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Poor

• On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Men
  • Secret
  • Affair

• I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Life
  • Live
  • Movie

• Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Different
  • Proud

• Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • College
  • Color
  • Sexy

• Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer