Fairfax Cone Quotes
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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If a person finds that he doesn’t know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.
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One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.
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As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Write to one person, not a million.
