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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money. Chuck Palahniuk
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There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together. C. Everett Koop
If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about. Robert Rodriguez
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Writing is the supreme solace."
Writing is the supreme solace. W. Somerset Maugham
Erich von Stroheim quote: "I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual..."
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality. Erich von Stroheim
As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth. Melissa Auf der Maur
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. George Eliot
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. Elizabeth Hardwick
In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us. J. K. Rowling
Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account. Hosni Mubarak
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. Frank McCourt
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man. Kurt Russell
The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is. Beck