Richard Paul Evans Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.
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It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.
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Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.
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I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
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Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
