William Styron Quotes
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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With kids, I have less time for things like masks - though I do try to treat myself, after they've gone to bed, to a mask or something. It's kind of funny because, as you get older, you probably need to do more in terms of beauty, but actually, you have less time to do it. But becoming a mother has made me a stronger person.
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The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
