Marcia Muller Quotes

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
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• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
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• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
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• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
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• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
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• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
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• I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
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• The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
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• I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  

  John Gunther
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• I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

  

  Marcia Muller
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