I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
Lydia Millet
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
Joe Abercrombie
CharacterDetailStartBookThink
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
ArtTruePrinciplesEvokePortray
I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good.
Robert J. Shiller
GoodHopeBestVoteHimSomething
To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.
Jeff Van Gundy
GreatBestMeBasketballWinMatter
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard
BeautyPassionFashionMoralWhose
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.
John Varvatos
MeGrowing UpWeatherColdRemember
Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.
Stephen Frears
LiveHateI AmMeCountryLondon
If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.
Troy Perry
MeOrganizationWorldChurchYou
I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.'
Tony Danza
GoodTodayFightGameBehaviorYou
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.
Tom Clancy
WarPeopleMeDoingKnowMore
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
Rita Hayworth
LovedYouKnowJustEverybodyWants
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
Mike Love
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