Carl Hiaasen Quotes
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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As the family goes, so go the children.
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The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
