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book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book books-and-reading bring certain comic guy mythical sort
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura. Arturo Sarukhan
book good job match repair
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
book comics dc drew indie ten time work wrote
I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist. Jeff Lemire
book change happens instead maybe plastic says shrink
What this show says is that real change happens internally, that maybe you should book a consultation with a shrink instead of a plastic surgeon. Ryan Murphy
character honor foundation
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer
character
I like to take a character and develop it Alison Lohman
character men actors
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. Alfred Molina
character writing target-audience
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you. Alex Borstein
character ideas stories
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories. Alex Garland
character yield wilderness
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. Aldo Leopold
character home men
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. Aldous Huxley
character mean may
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
character men average
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past people skinny
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. David Arquette
past decision architect
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
past opportunity political
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music. Aloe Blacc
past littles rooms
In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else. Amanda Holden
past ends myth
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. Anne Carson
past comfort monument
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Thomas Jefferson
past doubt way
The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action. Robert Herjavec
past government hands
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both. Robert Higgs