William Targ Quotes
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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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.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.
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What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
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You cannot fail unless you quit.
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The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
