William Styron Quotes
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
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The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
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On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.
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I don't understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.
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Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
