David Foreman Quotes
There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
Quotes to Explore
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
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As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
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Cersei is a character who's done unspeakable things, and yet we also know that she's a mother who's lost her children - that she's been pushed to the end of her tether.
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Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
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I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, … I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
