I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Mickey Spillane
Recitation: by Male by Female
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Jim Palmer
FailureBestLosingYouYourGiven
Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.
Jim Sturgess
GirlAmericanOutGuyActivityGet
'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'
John Burdett
MeWritingEnoughSecurityComfort
In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
Michael Foreman
PerspectiveKingBattleYouFind
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
John Updike
ShortYouHouseMustLikeImprovise
Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.
Steve Erickson
TimeBeginningStoryPresentEnd
You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.
Molly Bloom
WorkMeFearlessEndTryingYou
You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
OrganizationUniverseYouFeeling
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
Don Bluth
BusinessPhilosophyMarketingHold
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Brett Favre
SuccessGoodSayingYouBadPlay
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
TechnologyScienceNeedSpending
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
William Petty
HopeMenManSaidLivingTakes
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