In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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quotistNo novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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proverbiosI'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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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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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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