Bob Mayer Quotes
A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
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Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
