Illeana Douglas Quotes
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Illeana Douglas
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
Canelo Alvarez
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
Lars Onsager
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
Macaulay Culkin
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
Felicity Kendal
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
Feng Zhang
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Zubin Mehta
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
Jack Nicklaus
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Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
John C. Calhoun
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
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My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
Sun Myung Moon
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One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
Jason Katims
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My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
Carlos Slim
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Illeana Douglas
