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Louise Penny Quotes

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1958

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Me Down Years Turn Rights Anything

Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.

Generation Artist India Create Ink

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Business Time Growing Up End Growing

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Society Transportation Museums Most

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

Home Struggle Peace Woman Man War

Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.

Work Opportunity Process Important

There is no one thing that can turn around a rejection. But there is one answer: begin talking to your customers who have already bought from you and discover why they bought.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Talking Rejection You Why Turn

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Sick Voice Smoking Short Career Cut

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

Good Dating World Someone You Want

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

Growth New Will Always Something

Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.

Criticism Encouragement Want My Own

Winning in Oakland in '89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that '88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.

Great Team Winning Mission Look Awe

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

World American Goal Price Now Paid

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