Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.Florence Scovel Shinn
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Halle Berry
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell -
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore -
If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
Eden Hazard -
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I like to make my name of songs strange.
Flula Borg
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No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria -
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
Danica McKellar -
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
Martin Jacques -
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor -
I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
Frankie Cosmos -
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino -
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
Florence Scovel Shinn