Daniel Defoe Quotes
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Tadashi Shoji -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
D. B. Sweeney -
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Dan Rather
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.
David O. Russell -
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
Albert Camus -
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
Lao Tzu -
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
Mike Royko -
He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe