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...had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.

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After my name day feast, I’m going to raise a host and kill your brother myself. That’s what I’ll give you, Lady Sansa. Your brother’s head.” A kind of madness took over her then, and she heard herself say, “Maybe my brother will give me your head. George R. R. Martin
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I hear a new tone when acquaintances ask how I am, a tone I have not before noticed and find increasing distressing, even humiliating: these acquaintances seem as they ask impatient, half concerned, half querulous, as if no longer interested in the answer. As if all too aware that the answer will be a complaint. I determine to speak, if asked how I am, only positively. I frame the cheerful response. What I believe to be the cheerful response as I frame it emerges, as I hear it, more in the... Joan Didion
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. Carly Simon
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. Christine McVie
Georg Trakl quote: "Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls."
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls. Georg Trakl
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment. W. Somerset Maugham
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. Hannah Arendt
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark. Gwyneth Paltrow
David Sedaris quote: "But most good movies have a gun in them."
But most good movies have a gun in them. David Sedaris
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus quote: "Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and..."
Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline. Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western. Gus Van Sant
The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer. Jo Durie
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. Pete Domenici