Donald E. Westlake Quotes
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown -
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
Damon Wayans -
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel -
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
Carl Safina -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
Gary Locke -
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
Kaley Cuoco -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams -
I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
Omari Hardwick
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
Victoria Pendleton -
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
Ian Watson -
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
Dallas Roberts -
I don't particularly like L.A.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
Maluma
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. Day Lewis -
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
Fatema Mernissi -
There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
Frederick Marryat -
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
Pablo Casals -
Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
Donald E. Westlake