Larry Cohen Quotes
Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can do it for you. I'm Skip Brittenham.'Larry Cohen
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
Sam Reed -
Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
Otto Schily -
Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
Yochai Benkler -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg -
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick -
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
Rainn Wilson -
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin -
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
Cal Hubbard -
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Quintilian
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
Adam Davidson -
I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
Mallory Jansen -
I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
Victor Mitchell -
I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
Nancy Sinatra
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The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
Jake Epstein -
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie -
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
David Suzuki -
Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.
Daniel Inouye -
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can do it for you. I'm Skip Brittenham.'
Larry Cohen