Ross MacDonald Quotes

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Ross MacDonald

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I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

Andrew Dice Clay

ThinkYouStopWatchingSomething

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean-Claude Duvalier

ImaginationFinancialLaughMedia

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

Rodrigo Santoro

HomeTimeExperienceMePictureYou

God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

Mary Manin Morrissey

LifeGodPowerMeEnergyYou

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Jason Giambi

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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Jose Saramago

WordsManThoughtsOrderGivenHis

It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

Jose Ferreira

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When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

David Tennant

RealityYouWantUnderstandFantasy

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

Chris Hughes

PeopleIdeasProblemsThinkProcess

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

David Walliams

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Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Shia LaBeouf

BeginningStoryActorEveryChooses

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Sharon Stone

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