Jackie Chan Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
Carl Hubbell -
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen -
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Maeve Binchy -
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
Warwick Davis
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
Barbara Boxer -
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
Ian Rankin -
Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
Laura Marling -
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing -
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Harlan Coben
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
Tawni O'Dell -
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
Patrick Ness -
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor -
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
Halle Berry -
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
Parker Posey
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Alva Ross "AJ" Kitt IV -
I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.
Richie Havens -
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.
Erica Jong -
Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
Kage Baker -
Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.
Angie Stone -
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie Chan