E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?E. L. Doctorow
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
Zach Woods -
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
Wayne Rogers -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
Tasha Smith -
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
Jackie Chan
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling -
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
Lance Ito -
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
Harmony Korine -
VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
Palmer Luckey -
I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
Patrice O'Neal -
The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
Federica Mogherini
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde -
I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
Iman -
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga -
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
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I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Alfred Marshall -
When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.
James P. Gorman -
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden -
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
John Henry Carver -
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow