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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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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My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.
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I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.
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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.
