James Whitcomb Riley Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I don't have many friends.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
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Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
