David Castle Quotes
Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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overwhelming force indiscriminately applied, not giving up on it well after he was sure no more was required.
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The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
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On 'Supergirl,' there are huge characters with huge mythologies behind them. What's important is that you don't lock yourself into something.
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I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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I miss only, and then only a little, in the late afternoon, the sudden white laughter that like heat lightning bursts in an atmosphere where souls are trying to serve the impossible. My father for all his mourning moved in the atmosphere of such laughter. He would have puzzled you. He puzzled me. His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.
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Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.
