Ellen Wittlinger Quotes
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Candace Bushnell
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
Adam Driver
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
Ad Reinhardt
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
E. B. White
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.
Lin Yutang
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Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.
Elizabeth Banks
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I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'
Brian Posehn
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My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
Chance The Rapper
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
Victor Hugo
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Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.
Chip Gaines
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
Laurie Metcalf
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There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.
Willy Vlautin
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1
Sherman Alexie
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How can your worst nightmare also be your wildest dream?
Ellen Wittlinger
