John Cheever Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn -
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher -
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
Garret Dillahunt -
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
Gavin DeGraw
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
Wagner Moura -
I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. Richter -
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater -
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
Eddie Trunk -
I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
Maggie Hassan -
I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
Gary Sinise -
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
Camille Paglia -
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
Randall Jarrell -
'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
E. B. White
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
Maisie Williams -
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
Joan Blades -
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Neil MacGregor -
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
William Pfaff -
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever