Jack London Quotes
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Go West, young man.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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One with the law is a majority.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
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You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.
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Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential
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It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.
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I need a distance to my characters when I write.
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I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
