William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I love cycling.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
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I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
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The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
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In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
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Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
