Joseph Heller Quotes
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.Joseph Heller
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith -
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
Ralph Stanley -
You want your coach's blessing.
Candace Parker -
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
Kage Baker
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
Gale Anne Hurd -
Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
Yitzhak Rabin -
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
A. S. Byatt -
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano -
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
Dana Spiotta
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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
Irvine Welsh -
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken -
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
Ian Schrager -
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
Vikram Patel -
I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
R. J. Cutler
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The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
Christian Slater -
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
Nancy Duarte -
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven -
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
Doug Harvey -
...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
Alben W. Barkley -
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.
Joseph Heller