Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  

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• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• 'You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power-something that in fact brings both in its train.''And what is that?'The count leaned forward. 'Knowledge.'

  

  Tad Williams
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• A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.

  

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• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

  

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• Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
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• You want to keep the defense guessing.

  

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• Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

  

  Donald Knuth
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• A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?'

  

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• It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

  

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• Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.

  

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• I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

  

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• There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.

  

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• I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.

  

  Elizabeth Sims
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• Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

  

  Sigrid
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• Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

  

  John Petrucci
  • Learn
  • Give
  • Profit

• Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Mill