John Dryden Quotes
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I'm easily entertained.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
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The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
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Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
