Edwin Lefevre Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
Caitlin Flanagan -
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
Ramez Naam -
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes -
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
Rafe Spall -
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
Randy Weber -
Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
Brown Campbell -
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
Zach Braff -
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
Karl Pilkington -
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
Maajid Nawaz -
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
Sam Kinison
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
Nate Diaz -
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
Victoria Jackson -
A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.
Edwin Lefevre