Whitley Strieber Quotes
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
