John Milton Quotes
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.
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If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I fell in love with dressing myself up.
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
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I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
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I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.
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I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
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Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
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Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.
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It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
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If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
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The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
