 But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color. Author: A. J. McLean
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| The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. Author: Aaliyah
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| If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy. Author: Aaliyah
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| It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. Author: Aaliyah
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| I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. Author: Aaron Allston
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| We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. Author: Aaron Brown
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| My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Author: Aaron Carter
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| If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. Author: Aaron Copland
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| You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. Author: Aaron Copland
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| But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. Author: Aaron Hill
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| There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story. Author: Aaron Stanford
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| In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. Author: Abel Ferrara
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| The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin. Author: Ace Frehley
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| That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. Author: Ace Frehley
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| The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. Author: Adam Arkin
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| There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. Author: Adam Brody
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| I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. Author: Adam Clymer
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| Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. Author: Adam Clymer
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| But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. Author: Adam Duritz
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| If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. Author: Adam Duritz
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| My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. Author: Adam Duritz
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| Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel. Author: Adam Jones
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| I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like. Author: Adam Jones
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| I've never worried about how long the song is. Author: Adam Jones
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| That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound. Author: Adam Jones
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| That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it. Author: Adam Jones
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| The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. Author: Adam Osborne
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| It's all about racing on the track. Author: Adam Petty
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| I really didn't think about song writing. Author: Adam Rich
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| I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do. Author: Adam Sandler
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| It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think. Author: Adam Sandler
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| To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. Author: Adam Sandler
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| When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. Author: Adam Sandler
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| You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Am I about to feel really, really stupid? Author: Adam Savage
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| In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. Author: Adam Smith
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| The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope. Author: Adele Faber
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| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. Author: Adolf Galland
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| We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. Author: Adolf Galland
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| One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years. Author: Adrian Grenier
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| I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. Author: Adriana Lima
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| Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Author: Adriana Lima
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| I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model. Author: Adriana Lima
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| I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile. Author: Adriana Lima
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| If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. Author: Aeschylus
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| The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. Author: Agatha Christie
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| Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Author: Agatha Christie
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| Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. Author: Agnes de Mille
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