Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
