Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
Garth Brooks -
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
K. A. Paul -
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young -
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
Otis Redding -
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
Randa Haines -
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Malala Yousafzai -
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland -
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
Nancy Kress
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Be larger than your task.
Orison Swett Marden -
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
Oscar Wilde -
Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.
Nancy Pelosi -
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
Larry Wall -
The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. And we must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands, unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values.
Hillary Clinton -
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Ambrose Bierce
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.
Charles West Churchman -
Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
Baba Kalyani -
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
Dana Carvey -
Real slow hits from the bong...
Louis Mario Freese -
I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.
Bozoma Saint John