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What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see… — Leonard Nimoy
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for… — Eddie Vedder
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the name… — Richard Boone
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. — Robert Breault
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the… — Constance Baker Motley
Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I… — Sophie Kinsella
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough… — David Shrigley
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional… — Charles Krauthammer
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in. — Jodie Foster
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in… — Sloane Crosley
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer… — Will Ferrell
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of...… — Anthony Hopkins
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather… — Joyce Carol Oates
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have… — Sam Shepard
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development… — Dylan Thomas
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts… — Virginia Woolf

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