William Gibson Quotes
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
Idina Menzel
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
Taraji P. Henson
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
Jack Bruce Cream
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My party is committed to a federation.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Manfred Eigen
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
Jack Kilby
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
Gary Burghoff
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
Sam Shepard
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I'm a fan of people getting together.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Competition among schools is always a great motivator.
John Rowland
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We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.
Joseph David-Jones
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson