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Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books. 
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In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,
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There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels. Victor LaValle
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. Laurence Housman
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt
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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. Andrew O'Hagan
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Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional. Hillary Clinton
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate. Barry Gibb
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. Thomas Hobbes
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Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky. Peter Hermann
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
english-musician
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers. Pat Murphy
looking open terms wide
We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.
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Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations. Francis Chan
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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. Thomas Huxley
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The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure. Thomas Eakins
powerful men agency
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. Thomas de Quincey
powerful military war
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. Timothy Garton Ash
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You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution. Timothy Leary
powerful political advice
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along. Thomas Sowell
powerful drama light
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. Robert McKee
powerful heart maturity
Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.
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For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. Robert Lanza
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It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously. Anthony Kiedis