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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The world needs some help.
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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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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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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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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
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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.
