Greg van Eekhout Quotes

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

Greg van Eekhout

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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.

Jimmy Smits

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In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

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I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.

John Battelle

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Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

Meghan McCain

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For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.

Anna Maxwell Martin

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I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

Tracy Morgan

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In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

Russ Carnahan

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When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.

MaryJanice Davidson

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I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

Mickey Rourke

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Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Michel Faber

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It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

Johnny Manziel

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In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.

Johnny Weir

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