Steven Saylor Quotes
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
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When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life.
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I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
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I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
