William Congreve Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
Kate Atkinson -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
Dan Quinn -
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
Walter Lang -
You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
Rachel Zoe -
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. Paul Getty
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
Kara Hayward -
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Tadashi Shoji -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
Gabriel Iglesias -
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
Eddie Campbell -
Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
Leigh Brackett -
Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
Carroll Shelby -
It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve