Whitley Strieber Quotes
God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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War is just an effect, not a cause.
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God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.
