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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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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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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... 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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We are very much interested in developing and strengthening our relations with India because India is one of the most important countries in the world. We believe in democracy... I hope my visit will contribute to strengthening our relations with India.
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I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.
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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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.
