"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."

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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times."

John Amos, American Actor

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"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."

Celia Green, British Author

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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

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"We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

Steven Brust, American Author

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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

"I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times."

"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible."

"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."

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"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."

"The engineering is secondary to the vision."

"After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."

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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."