Theophilus London Quotes

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

Theophilus London

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YouDangerousPersonNewSayWant

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PeopleFindGoKnowOutUs

Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.

John Logan

WritingLookingStoryLanguageYou

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

Matthew Lewis

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The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

Jeff Sessions

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I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.

Tom Mison

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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

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Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.

Mike Posner

MusicTimeTogetherWritingLong

I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.

Lizzie Armitstead

WorldMostAthletesTested

Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'

Jean Craighead George

HomeWritingWolvesNeverContract

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Jason Fried

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With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily.

Jonathan Miles

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I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.

Devon Bostick

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