Joe Haldeman Quotes

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

Joe Haldeman

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GoodCourageGreatThinkEnjoyKind

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

John Waters

MeThinkStrangersSecretsDeepest

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

MF Doom

CharacterStyleMeWritingStory

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Mason Cooley

IdeasThoughtsWorldReasonUsGet

I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.

Mike McCready

BabyNewWantKindEverythingGuy

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

Miranda Otto

EasyFindPlayCharactersGuess

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

Loretta Lynch

FearLookingThinkingViewSee

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

Jonathan King

UglySomeoneYouFindSayTry

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Don Winslow

WorkMorningStartProblemWicked

I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.

Colin Kaepernick

PeopleMeWayNeverThingsNFL

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

Ashley Jensen

MeHusbandBackHolidayI CanWant

Misfortune was my god.

Arthur Rimbaud

GodMisfortune

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

Alissa Quart

PossibleAlwaysEncouragingSimply

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