I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.
Janet Evanovich
Recitation: by Male by Female
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
Matthew Pearl
TeacherSchoolAnimalHigh School
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
Steven Soderbergh
BusinessTravelPeopleTalkingFilm
A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
Trent Reznor
FearToughTryingYouFindWall
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
Robin Day
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The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with stories where people's roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.
Mike Vogel
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The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.
Miriam Margolyes
LifeCuriousJoyMy LifeEverything
I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.
Mildred Dresselhaus
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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
Joni Mitchell
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I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson
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Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
Johnny Rivers
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There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.
Chris Martin
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We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
Brian L. Roberts
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