James A. Michener Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
