Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford -
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta -
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Taylor Swift -
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken -
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber Conable -
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
Mahavira -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam -
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss -
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Langhorne Slim
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How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
Francesco Guicciardini -
And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
Philip Roth -
I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
A. S. Byatt -
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
Bram Stoker -
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
Samuel Johnson