Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
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I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.
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I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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Sir James Jeans
