Quotes about american-author
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
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What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
american-author destroys liked preserve stock
And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
american-author goes notion
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. Lynn Abbey
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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. Ron Chernow
american-author beats happens might
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. Donna Leon
american-author dramatic great lasted side
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. Shelby Foote
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I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. Robert Sheckley
american-author interfere knew selling
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.
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There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.
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This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives. Tim Collins
american-author deserves human race
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Elizabeth Janeway
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
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That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. Eric Carle
american-author confront list
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies
american-author hoping riding since time written
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
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The highest qualities of character... must be earned. Lyman Abbott
american-author life virtue
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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The publication date of that book was Sept. 10, 2001. That's why nobody's ever heard of it. Maybe I'll do another one in the future someday. Gregg Easterbrook
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
american-author born civilized fit fresh
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous, and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. Judith Martin
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Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.
american-author cannot care course interested music performed
Of course I do care about the way my music is performed and so I cannot really say that I am not interested in how it is received.
american-author course enjoy examples great
Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it. Robert Fitzgerald
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No one in the family played a musical instrument, we did not even possess one between us, all we had was a battered old gramophone, a 1920s model.
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. Sara Paretsky