B. R. Hayden Quotes
It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
-
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
-
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
-
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
-
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
-
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
-
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
-
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
-
I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
-
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
-
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
-
Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
-
I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
-
The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
-
I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
-
When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
-
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
-
If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
-
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.
-
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
-
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
-
Novels allow me to create a whole world.
-
It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.
