Diane Mott Davidson Quotes

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

Diane Mott Davidson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1949

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Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

Steven Soderbergh

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I want to have kids and a hot husband.

Troye Sivan

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I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.

MaryJanice Davidson

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Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

Juice Wrld

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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Jose Padilha

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I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

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My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

Cole Hauser

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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Thomas Mann

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That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

Kurt Elling

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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Julian Casablancas

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My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

James Meade

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