Brian Koppelman Quotes
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
Garth Stein -
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld -
For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
Karin Slaughter -
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
Sam Brownback -
Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
Park Chan-wook -
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
Jack Kerouac
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
Ursula Burns -
The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
Katharine Cornell -
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
Rabih Alameddine -
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
Carl Lewis -
It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
Yuna -
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
Dan Phillips
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
Dan Lipinski -
Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.
Jack Keane -
Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Wally Lamb -
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
Patrick Kane
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
Mark Steyn -
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
Pamela Hanson -
In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
Harold Larwood -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
Brian Koppelman