Nelson Algren Quotes
If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.
Nelson Algren
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
Taylor Wilson
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
Samantha Shannon
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
Nathan Fillion
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
Patrick J. Adams
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
Pamela Hanson
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.
William H. Macy
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
J. D. Salinger
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Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it's much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
Katharine Graham
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If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.
Nelson Algren
