Alexander Pope Quotes
On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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The media is controlled.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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'Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!'
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
