William Gibson Quotes
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.William Gibson
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
Kara Lindsay -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion -
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
Taylor Lautner -
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
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 -
There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama
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I don't like to play the victim.
Barry Pepper -
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
Patrick Kane -
I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
Sally Phillips -
If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Rand Paul -
When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
Karin Slaughter
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
Daphne Guinness -
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon -
After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
Kate Christensen -
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
William Gibson