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Jonathan Lethem quote: "It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I..."

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

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I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do. Gemma Arterton
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a..."
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. Ray Bradbury
Michael Ondaatje quote: "If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you?"
If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you? Michael Ondaatje
Will Rogers quote: "When you're through learning, you're through."
When you're through learning, you're through. Will Rogers
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. C. S. Lewis
Otto von Bismarck quote: "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch..."
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. Otto von Bismarck
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. Paul Tsongas
Thomas Mann quote: " a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of..."
... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal. Thomas Mann
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. Eric Carle
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. William S. Burroughs
Namie Amuro quote: "Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a..."
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change. Namie Amuro
James Brown quote: "Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can..."
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience. James Brown
Pythagoras quote: "In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and..."
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. Pythagoras
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that! Jeff Foxworthy