I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Recitation: by Male by Female
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
Jo Nesbo
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I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.
Ann Nocenti
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Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
Mercedes Ruehl
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Queen's is one of my favourite tournaments of the year.
Stan Wawrinka
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I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.
Shimon Peres
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My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.
Tom Sizemore
WorkGoodWifeTeamBecauseWorking
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It seems like the real television networks, the amount of people that watch each network is going down and down, and the amount of people that watch each website is going up and up.
Matt Besser
PeopleWebsiteTelevisionDownReal
Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.
Lloyd Alexander
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Thankfully, I have a job where it does not matter in the least what I look like.
Jason Aaron
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I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.
Jay Garner
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When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
Jonathan Raban
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