Douglas Brunt Quotes

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Douglas Brunt

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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

John le Carre

DifferenceBigWestWorkingState

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

Matt Lanter

HouseLightsAlwaysTurnRecycling

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

Michael Caine

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Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

Amiri Baraka

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In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.

Amanda Foreman

DawnViewHumanityCivilizationOut

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

Shirley Temple

WomenMenMeLovedYouKnow

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

Tom Shales

StartSellingGetTolerateMaybe

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

LifePowerValueWindSwimmingYou

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Ruth Wilson

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I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Michael Palin

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One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

Molly Ivins

LifeGoodFightWinTexasLearn

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

Brian Jacques

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