Esther Forbes Quotes
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
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It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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Desolation Island (1979)
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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
