"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

Lee Konitz, American Musician

Formula, Name, Play, Right

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

Piers Anthony, English Writer

Formula, Want

"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

Barry Sheene, British Celebrity

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Formula, Lies

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Formula, Jazz, Play, Saying

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

Formula, Hate

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Formula, Meaning, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

George Shearing, British Musician

Formula, Popular

"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian Celebrity

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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Formula, Violence

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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."

Books, Collaboration, Editors

"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."

Time, Internet

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

Formula, Want

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

Sense,

"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."

Hope, Being, Englfantasy, Light

"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it."

Education, Sex, America, Culture

"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."

Humorous, Fantasy, Writing

"I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that."

Writing,

"I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth."

Home, Land, State

"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."

Publishers, Merit, Want