Megan Abbott Quotes

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

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No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Jo Brand

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We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Joel Fuhrman

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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Robert Southey

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My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

John Hutton

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It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is nothing inherently bad about inequality. Whether it is bad depends on how it comes about and what it does.

Angus Deaton

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I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

Michael Jackson

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For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

John Woo

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You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

Mike Cernovich

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The more confident I am, the more daring I am.

Michelle Wolf

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

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You have to make it happen.

Denis Diderot

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