Whit Stillman Quotes

I love writing novels, but I'm very fearful about writing something from absolute scratch. I kind of don't have the time to write something from scratch. I think when my knees completely give out, and I can't make films anymore, I would try to write novels from scratch.

Whit Stillman

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'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

Joe R. Lansdale

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I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

Jillian Hervey

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I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

Jenny Mollen

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I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.

Matt Kuchar

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I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.

Jeff Nichols

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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Andy Richter

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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

John Podhoretz

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One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

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I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

Stormy Daniels

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A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

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I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

Robert Ballard

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For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Mitch Kapor

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