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I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I'm always confused when people say how much they miss 'Invader Zim' because the show never stopped running in my head, and… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy… I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
Let's face it, fashion was destroyed by HIV. People would just die like flies in the eighties. Then, my brother died of… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't… — Rhys Ernst Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
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Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe?… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
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I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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