Helen Keller Quotes
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
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It's funny because TV wasn't something that I wanted to do. I wanted to do movies. I'd said a lot of no's to a lot of shows previously because I couldn't fathom being on a show for such a long time and only doing one thing.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
