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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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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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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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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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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With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
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I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
