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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

Topics

EndGoNeedAlwaysUpWhere

When I did 'Clockers,' I didn't even think about having a career in acting, I just thought, 'Wow, this is cool. I get to do a little movie.'

Mekhi Phifer

CoolThinkThoughtCareerActing

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Angus T. Jones

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I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

DemocracyWorryDictatorshipWeapons

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.

DeMar DeRozan

GreatYourselfNegativeEnergyYou

I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.

Donald Cerrone

LifeLoveWayCowboyJustFell

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

Debbie Harry

ThinkRegretsGoingLotThem

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

Christian de Duve

NothingWillLeftDisappear

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Brandon Jay McLaren

TeacherSchoolHigh SchoolActing

Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

GoodOpportunityLookingYouSenior

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.

Richard Cohen

LifeScienceHistoryTimeMeCold

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

Mark Haddon

LivePeopleMeSomeoneAlienWrite

I never want to get stuck in the box.

Mustard

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