Steve Toltz Quotes

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

Steve Toltz

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Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

John Lanchester

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Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

Maurice Ravel

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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.

Matthew Desmond

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I would like to think people would take me seriously.

Michael Avenatti

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You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

Steve Zahn

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In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

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They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

Robert B. Parker

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Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.

Tom Cotton

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When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

Rodney Atkins

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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

Russell Smith

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