Raymond Chandler Quotes

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Raymond Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959

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I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

Jimmie Johnson

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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.

Andrew Rosenthal

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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

John Oates

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Well, I have no time for therapy.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

Ana Patricia Botin

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There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen.

Steven Levy

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A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

Sufe Bradshaw

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'Pelleas et Melisande' is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

Simon Rattle

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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Milos Forman

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When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

Dermot Healy

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I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Brian Molko

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