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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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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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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Great God! This is an awful place.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
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The August sun, God's blood-blister...
