Richard Stanley Quotes
The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.
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For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
