Lynne Truss Quotes
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
Lynne Truss
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
Fisher Stevens
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
F. Murray Abraham
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
Tatiana Maslany
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
Dan Castellaneta
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I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.
Ann Nocenti
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I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis.
Nell Scovell
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Calms appear, when storms are past,Love will have its hour at last.
John Dryden
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
Lynne Truss