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.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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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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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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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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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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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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Tea is a huge part of my life.
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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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The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
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I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.
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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.
