Jim Bishop Quotes
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.Jim Bishop
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
Daniel Bryan -
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Natalia Makarova -
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro -
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
Laura Schlessinger -
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt -
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills -
Health is never going to go out of fashion.
Magnus Scheving -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone -
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
Garth Brooks -
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
Aaron Eckhart -
I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
Lana Parrilla
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I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.
Amar'e Stoudemire -
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
Tariq Ramadan -
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Camille Paglia -
I always thought I was really thick.
Jeremy Gilley -
I generally like to stay fit.
Amy Jackson -
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
Jim Bishop