Quotes 301 till 320 of 542.
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No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free.
Source: Last Man in Tower (2011) 419 -
Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
Source: Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974) -
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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Once I start shooting that jumper, I feel like I will be one of those guys that is hard to stop.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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