Quotes 281 till 300 of 1038.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
Source: As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption -
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
Source: Othello I, 1 -
I am stunned by how much time and effort I must spend marketing my book and interacting with my readers. With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation.
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I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Source: As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198 -
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
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I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I don't go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.
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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
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