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Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… — Tom Robbins
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. — Robert Kirkman
If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build… — Mark Salzman
I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is… — Ani DiFranco
When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. — Tim Allen
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing. — Evander Holyfield
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those… — Dixie Lee Ray
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a… — Barry Sanders
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public… — Raymond Chandler
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted… — Nicholson Baker
Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not… — Moss Hart
It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done… — Robert Bellarmine
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he… — Henry Louis Gates
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. — Theodore Sturgeon
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell… — John Major
The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste. — Andy Richter
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want. — Kevin Nealon
It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the… — Sam Shepard
I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell… — Janeane Garofalo
I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like… — Emmitt Smith
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. — M. Ward
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and… — M. Ward
I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one… — Morena Baccarin

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