"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces."

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"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces."

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"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

Jason Schwartzman, American Actor

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"This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

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"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."

Jacques Delors, French Economist

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"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"

Terry Goodkind, American Writer

Driving, Fiction, Sound

"Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."

David Halberstam, American Journalist

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"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."

Thierry Henry, French Athlete

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"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."

Anthony Doerr, American Writer

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"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."

Benjamin Britten, English Composer

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"Mind your driving."

L. M. Heroux, American Author

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"As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, with his head thrown back, his rich, flawless voice singing the lilting air of the opera from which we'd only just come, his walking stick tapping the cobblestones in time with the music, his large, sparkling eye catching the young woman who stood by, enrapt, so that a smile spread over his face as the song died on his lips; and for one moment, that one moment when his eye met hers, all evil seemed obliterated in that flush of pleasure, that passion for merely being alive."

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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

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"Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil."

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"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."

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"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars."

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"Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait."

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"I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh."

Humor

"Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies."

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