Shane Carruth Quotes

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Shane Carruth

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I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Jeremy Clarkson

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Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

Matt Frewer

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Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

Steven Amsterdam

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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Sidney Poitier

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I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.

Michelle Phan

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Livy

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Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?

Loretta Swit

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Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Joyce Meyer

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It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

Debbie Harry

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There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.

Christina Romer

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There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

Clive Barker

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We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

Wolfman Jack

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