Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
Clive James
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
Carlton Cuse
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Patrick Stewart
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
F. Sionil Jose
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
Candace Bushnell
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
Isaac Asimov
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I think - you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country - my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn't even aware that she'd married him.
Pawel Pawlikowski
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Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
Buddy Guy
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said—that life wasn’t all nice and neat like a book, and life didn’t have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn’t right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn’t I be like him?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget.
Betty Neels
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Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
Clive James
