Lawrence Block Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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Her voice trembled. "I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go." This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive."
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When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.
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It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.
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Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
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Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
