I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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