Jack London Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I would like to direct.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
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I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.
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Hyesan people have money, the most after those in Pyongyang, because it's near the border with China. Illegal smuggling businesses and Chinese trading companies operate there, so people can access outside products.
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I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
