Lee Child Quotes

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Lee Child

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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

John Fahey

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When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Robert M. Hutchins

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I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

Jefferson Mays

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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

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God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Steve Harvey

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If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.

Simon Beaufoy

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We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

Ron Johnson

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The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

Roy Moore

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As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

Mike Birbiglia

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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

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It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.

Lizzie Armitstead

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The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.

Chris Squire

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