Up Quotes
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The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.
Marcus Sakey
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It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Dennis Quaid
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Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.
Anna Paquin
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I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.
Meghan Markle
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We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
Barack Obama
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I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.
John Lanchester
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I'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.
Jesse Ventura
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Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
Elif Batuman
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Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.
H. L. Mencken
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I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I ‘should’ want. Sometimes there is no ‘should,’ there’s only a single chance to grab on to happiness.
Nalini Singh
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
E. M. Forster
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coming away from the doctor's after a check-up Get interested is the advice, but in truth you are interested in less and less. It's Nature's way.
John Updike
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My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.
Alan Furst
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Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
Jordan Peele
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I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
Jim Coleman
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That's why I liked judo so much right from the start - I got to beat up all the boys.
Kelita Zupancic
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I could probably stand up and have a press conference and thank 100 guys within that Denver organization, along with all those teammates I played with.
Brock Osweiler
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I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
Ajay Naidu
