Harrison Ford Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes -
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
Rafe Spall -
I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
Rachel Bilson -
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet -
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul -
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
Zach Braff -
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
Karl Pilkington -
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono -
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
Maajid Nawaz
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth -
When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.
Daniel Cormier -
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
Ed Asner -
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney -
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
Zac Efron -
Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
Harrison Ford