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Quotes by American Authors
"I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."
"Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team."
"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good."
"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier."
"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
"When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb."
"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."
"The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists."
"I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker."
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
"Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?"
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
"My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe."
"I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect."
"Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans."
"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."
"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
"When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often."
"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
"If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence."
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
"I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do."
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
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