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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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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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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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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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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The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
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Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.
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Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
