It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
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Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this?… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
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I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can,… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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