E. W. Howe Quotes

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

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• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
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  • She
  • Book

• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Thoughts
  • Acting

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• I've actually done a lot of comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Actually

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Wave

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
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  • Time
  • May

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • History
  • Meant To Be

• I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • Things
  • Actor

• I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

  

  Tali Lennox
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  • She
  • Thought

• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

  

  E. W. Howe
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  • Man
  • Religion