William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated as a male, disappearing from the world into a secret prison, and never facing a public trial.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
