Samantha Harvey Quotes
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
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I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
