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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • See
  • Media
  • Economic

• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Action
  • Wonder

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Know
  • Last

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Show
  • Gig

• I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Money
  • Never
  • Many

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."

  

  Brian Henson
  • Way
  • Artists
  • Plan

• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  

  Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Love
  • Judgment
  • Conclusion

• The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

  

  Cael Sanderson
  • Time
  • History

• I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Song
  • Teach
  • Sigh

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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