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Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson I

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914

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Truth Politics Thinking Friends Stop

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Jim Lynch

Me Others First Driven Come Writer

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Jim Davis

You Nuts Eat Fruits Avoid

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

Great Best You Got Like Sentences

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke

Grief You Complexity Extreme Piece

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Women History Woman Thoughts Writing

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

Steven Tyler

Me Band Difficult Only Very

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Tom Peters

Problem Passionate Sides See I See

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Luke Evans

Good Character Responsibility Best

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

Luanne Rice

Law Chair Find Student Listen Empty

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.

Julia Hartz

You Two Point Get Benefits Faster

Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.

Clive Cussler

Incredible Mysteries

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Alicia Silverstone

Generation Whom TV I Came Came