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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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of. ~Paul Walker
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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