Karl Kraus Quotes
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.
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It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
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Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
