People Quotes
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Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured.
Elena Ferrante -
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.
Chad Harbach
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If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.
Maxine Peake -
I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
William Monahan -
The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'
Rebecca Serle -
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
Daniel Wallace -
The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
Wes Craven -
Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
Eric Greitens
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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
Dave Kellett -
Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.
William Gibson -
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Thomas Sowell -
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
Steve Martin -
You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.
Michael Scheuer -
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
Jenny Holzer
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When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.
Elizabeth Bear -
She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.
Beth Harbison -
People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.
Edeet Ravel -
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Bonnie Friedman -
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
Saul Bellow -
I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.
Judith Hill
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People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.
Tom Vilsack -
Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.
Thomas Sowell -
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
Jostein Gaarder -
We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield