Hilton Als Quotes

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

Hilton Als

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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

Jimmy Connors

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I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

Jessica Biel

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We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Joel Osteen

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If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

Matt Damon

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My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'.

Ann Coulter

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Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

Mike Birbiglia

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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

Jules Verne

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I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

Diane Abbott

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I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

Chris Van Hollen

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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.

Bruce Dickinson

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For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don't have any weights in the house, they can actually use a broom and put it behind their necks, lap over it and twist and squat. I do all of that if I don't go to the gym.

Pepa

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There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Scott Turow

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