Adam Clymer Quotes
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.Adam Clymer
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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 -
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor -
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
Samantha Morton -
I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
Taylor Negron -
If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
Karrie Webb -
Marriage has made me safer.
Kate Winslet
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard -
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant -
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
Nate Berkus -
The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
Kate O'Mara -
When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
Daniel Boulud -
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
Carl Icahn
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
Pat Buchanan -
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie -
When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
Sam Heughan -
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln -
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
Park Chung-hee -
It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
Felix Dennis -
It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords -
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer