Darren Shahlavi Quotes
I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.Darren Shahlavi
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
Laini Taylor -
I don't believe in strong-arming people.
Zachary Levi -
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus -
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
Irving Langmuir -
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie -
All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
Barton Gellman
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey -
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid -
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton -
Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
Victor Garber -
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
Salman Rushdie
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn -
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus -
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr -
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat -
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
James McAvoy -
People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Rand Paul -
If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan ... as you step out in faith, you know what's going to happen? There'll be people like Saul who'll say, "God's doing something through that guy, God's doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.
Francis Chan -
I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
Hayao Miyazaki -
I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.
Darren Shahlavi