Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
Karin Slaughter -
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter -
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic -
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
Harbhajan Singh
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
Barbara Castle -
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant -
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee -
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert -
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina Carpenter -
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. Harburg
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
Haley Joel Osment -
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
Kate Braverman -
I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Adam Grant -
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
Adam Gidwitz -
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
Gary Burton -
There's no down time any more.
Jeff Foxworthy -
The key is to test the areas that you are most worried about going wrong. That way you get the most benefit for your testing effort. It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests
Kent Beck -
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu