Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg -
I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
Abby Elliott -
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
T. Boone Pickens -
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Jack Levine -
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw -
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
Damien Chazelle
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren -
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
Jack Kingston -
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi -
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow -
Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
Francesco Totti -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.
Om Malik -
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Mark Steyn -
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya -
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'
Jeff Vandermeer -
Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
C.P. Snow -
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds