J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.J. Courtney Sullivan
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori -
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps -
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
Adam Cohen -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
K. Flay -
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
Nas -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
Owen Hart -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
Adam Green -
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon -
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
H. P. Lovecraft -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
Jim Yong Kim -
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
E. F. Schumacher -
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
Sam Hunt -
Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
John Ashcroft -
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan