Gene Fowler Quotes
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
