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Stephen King quote: "I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on..."

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

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I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enormous belly turned upward, bleeding, inflated—bloated with all its dead paws, this belly floating in this car, in this grey sky, is not a seat. It could just as well be a dead donkey tossed about in the water, floating with the current, belly in the... Jean-Paul Sartre
Bob Corker quote: "We need to make sure we have secure borders."
We need to make sure we have secure borders. Bob Corker
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. Fredric Jameson
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. Diana Ross
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. John Mayer
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God. Elizabeth Gilbert
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' Jude Law
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. George Woodcock
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being? Margaret Atwood
Dorothy Allison quote: "Things come apart so easily when they have been held together..."
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. Dorothy Allison
Tom Robbins quote: "People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make..."
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. Tom Robbins
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! Jerry Brown
For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the lonely wood and pour its music into nothingness? George Orwell
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Elen sla lmenn' omentielvo , a star shines on the hour of our..."
Elen sla lmenn' omentielvo , a star shines on the hour of our meeting. J. R. R. Tolkien
Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die. Fyodor Dostoevsky