James A. Michener Quotes
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
