James Herbert Quotes
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you
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Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
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Toronto is obviously Drake city.
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
