James Herbert Quotes
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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They're not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial. They don't innovate. That's why they're stealing our intellectual property.
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Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
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My work is atheistic, materialistic and communistic. It's atheistic because it's without transcendent form, without spiritual or intellectual quality. Materialistic because it's made out of it's own materials without pretension to other materials. And communistic because the form is equally accessible to all men.
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Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive, now You get yours, baby I'll get mine Gonna make it, baby If we try.
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... I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York...
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.
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I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
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The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
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I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.
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I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
