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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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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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'
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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.
