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.William Dean Howells
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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.
Larry Ellison -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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.
Gary Paulsen -
I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
K. Flay -
I love cycling.
Natalie Dormer -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
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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.
Jackie Earle Haley -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken -
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
Rachelle Lefevre -
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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.
Watt Key -
As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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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.
Ted Sarandos -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi -
I want to be an activist professor.
Tariq Ramadan -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Earl Long -
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.
T. J. Thyne
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon -
The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.
James G. Stavridis -
Whatever I do, I always want to get better.
Lennox Lewis -
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
Billy Crystal -
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart -
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells