Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.
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Take a close look at the part that 'love' plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.
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A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
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Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
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People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.
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It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
