Bram Stoker Quotes
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
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Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
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Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.
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The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
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Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
