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book character writing
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. David Walliams
book right-time has-beens
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. David Heyman
book reading thinking
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. David Icke
book eye air
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. David Hume
book men wickedness
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.
book yield cash-flow
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time. David Dreman
book inventory program
For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book. David Dunn
book character blood
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God. David Duchovny
book hills accurate
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate. David Brock
years dollars waste
Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site. David Walker
years acting knows
That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year. David Walton
years four russian-language
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. David Remnick
years decision waging-war
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. David Horowitz
years awakening firsts
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? David Hilbert
years world gathering
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
years research facts
So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.
years nhs people
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. David Hockney
years drawing fifty
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
important able principles
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood. David Ricardo
important visual-effects visuals
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.
important levels anonymity
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity, Ben Whishaw
important culture pearls
Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly. Beatrice Wood
important scripts directors
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. Audrey Tautou
important growing growing-old-gracefully
The most important thing is growing old gracefully. Audrey Hepburn
important fundamentals pillars
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society. Asne Seierstad
important done want
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately. Arnold Bennett
important opinion
The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself. Denis Waitley