Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.

Jill Paton Walsh

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I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

Jimmy Smits

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It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Joe Rogan

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We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson 'cause I've always liked him, his shows.

Maurice Gibb

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I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Stephen Curry

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I've never actually been exposed to the hardships that proper soldiers endure. I also think you need a particular constitution to be a soldier - built a certain way and wired a certain way. I don't know if I'd be too good with being told what to do all the time. I am a law-abider, but I've got a lot of questions and opinions, so maybe not.

Tom Glynn-Carney

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First off, you always gotta get your work done.

Rob Gronkowski

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As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent.

Miranda Otto

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You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

Joss Whedon

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I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

Jason Fuchs

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Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

Dinesh D'Souza

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I don't go out and pick fights.

Chester Bennington

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The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Clive Thompson

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