Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
Natasha Calis -
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
Pamela Dean -
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Walter Lippmann -
I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
Bebe Rexha -
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
Victor Cruz -
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
J. G. Ballard -
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Nancy Gibbs -
I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
Victor Mitchell -
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville -
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
Vera Wang
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg -
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni -
I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
T. J. Miller -
Every season I am inspired by women.
Oscar de la Renta -
It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
Valerie Simpson
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Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
Bill Bowerman -
The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?
Charles Hazlewood -
Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
Vallabha Acharya -
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Val Kilmer -
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson -
Art is to look at not to criticize.
Edgar Allan Poe