Paulo Coelho Quotes
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang -
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
Halsey -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle -
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater -
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn -
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi -
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells -
All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Malcolm X -
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
Parker Stevenson
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite -
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln -
That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
Eddie Redmayne -
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer -
I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.
Latrell Sprewell -
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
Tamra Davis
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We want a Colorado that works for everybody.
Jared Polis -
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
Bobby Farrelly Boney M. -
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Sam Shepard -
Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
Paulo Coelho