Chris Priestley Quotes
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
Chris Priestley
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
Mahershala Ali
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
Carla Gugino
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
Irwin Winkler
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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.
Xavier Niel
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I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
Eddie Marsan
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking
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..the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946 was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.
Jean Dubuffet
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If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
Donald Glover
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden
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Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.
Nelson Algren
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What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.
Eva Longoria
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
Hansika Motwani
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We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp.
Caryll Houselander
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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
Chris Priestley
