I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
Kathy Bates
Recitation: by Male by Female
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Dalberg-Acton
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I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.
Megan Amram
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
John Hope
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I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.
Amal Clooney
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
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I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
Robert Wise
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I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.
Rudy Giuliani
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That doll looks more like a black man than me.
Lorrie Fair
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As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.
Jason Ritter
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Jose Saramago
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