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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

Topics

Best Lawyer Compromise Legal

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

Home Music Time Talent Blue Me

I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

Heart Man Talent I Am Ambition

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Darkness Past You Behind Some Draw

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Progress Anything Progressive Make

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

You Write Yours Movie Novel Hundred

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

Change Good Time Story Become Mean

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

Community People City Believe Pride

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

Football Spring College Me Win Game

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Day Tired Reading End Of The Day End

My mom likes getting her photo taken.

Brooklyn Beckham

Mom Her Photo Likes Taken Getting

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

Antonio Damasio

Driving Luxury Emotions Way Being

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.

Today Who Most Talented Truly Billy

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