Richard Paul Evans Quotes
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.
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More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
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I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
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If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.
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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
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There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
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I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.
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Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
