Donald E. Westlake Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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The August sun, God's blood-blister...
