Andrew Pyper Quotes
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Quotes to Explore
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.
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I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
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If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
