Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
