Nick Harkaway Quotes

As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story.

Nick Harkaway

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I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

Jennifer Hudson

EyesSingingStartShyOpenHow

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

GreatCultureWorldFirstEmpire

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

Rob Portman

MeYouMoreYearsAgreeFour

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

Robert Winston

GoodDoctorThinkYouCircumstances

You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great.

Rosie Perez

Believe In YourselfGreatYourself

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

Michael Pitt

LifeChooseIntentionPersonalOut

My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

JoJo

FamilyGreatTrustSupportPeople

What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.

Donald Trump

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After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.

Cory Booker

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People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Anthony Hopkins

PeopleThinkSeriousForgetWhere

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

Susan Estrich

ChangeFunRestAnimalsInsultWill

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