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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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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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.
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One thing I learnt was that you don't have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if you're that talented as a cameraman.
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Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
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What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?
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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
