Isobelle Carmody Quotes

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Isobelle Carmody

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'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

Joe R. Lansdale

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I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Jennifer Beals

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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Meg Rosoff

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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Jeffrey Pierce

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When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Matt Prokop

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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

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We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

Andy Taylor

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As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Jeb Bush

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It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

Sterling K. Brown

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Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

Robert Dallek

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I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

Roone Arledge

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Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

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