Brian Lumley Quotes
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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A good book is a good book. End of story.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called - called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.
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95: Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
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My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.
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I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.
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Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.
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I didn't worry too much about staying in shape once I'd stopped dancing. You get to the point where you just burn out and have to give your body a chance to heal.
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A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
