Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.
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Any religion is a perspective upon existence.
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I always say it's very difficult when you're tackling something like 'Spider-Man' or 'Batman' that has been done so many times before.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.