Stephan Pastis Quotes
We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
Stephan Pastis
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
Karin Slaughter
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
Natalie Dormer
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
Ted Bell
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
Mahershala Ali
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
Laura Vandervoort
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I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
Nate Parker
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When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
Lauren Graham
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Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.
Louise Rennison
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If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.
Urban Meyer
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Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
Guy Fieri
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.
John Stuart Mill
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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
Honore de Balzac
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
Marcel Proust
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I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.
Dan Barker
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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
Stephan Pastis
