Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
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Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.
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Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
