Washington Irving Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
Rami Malek -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell -
SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
Safra A. Catz
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
I want to have a long career.
Haley Bennett -
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker -
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny -
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
Tania Raymonde -
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo -
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.
Dean Karnazes -
Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
Robin LaFevers -
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
Rand Paul -
You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.
Carmen Dell'Orefice -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving