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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• I never starved myself.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Starved

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Why
  • Reason

• I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Know
  • Rest

• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Child

• Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Personality

• Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Die

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Sea

• No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • She

• Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Good
  • Music
  • Style

• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Long

• Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and Clint Eastwood, called 'Kelly's Heroes,' which we filmed in Yugoslavia for six months.

  

  Don Rickles
  • God
  • Rest
  • Picture

• It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Dog

• The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Deals
  • Limitation
  • Bombs

• More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders

  

  Chris Shays
  • Rest
  • Shoulders
  • Hastert