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Quotes by American Authors
"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods."
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
"If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet."
"I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, 'well done,' and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing."
"No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know."
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."
"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
"It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan."
"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
"Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it."
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
"Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure."
"We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry."
"After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible."
"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement."
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't."
"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage."
"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
"I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring."
"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
"When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?"
"He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping."
"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."
"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
"That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening."
"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
"While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms."
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