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Patricia Highsmith Quotes

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

Patricia Highsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995

Topics

Fool Me Book Bad Living Possible

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

John W. Snow

World Deepest Capital Most Markets

All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

Tony Dorsett

Women Signs See Dollar Lot

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.

Rupert Grint

Character Yourself Kiss Bond Grow

Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

Michel Faber

I Am World Trees Trying Sound Write

I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day.

Miranda Cosgrove

Funny Love Day Movies Little Seen

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language Misleading Word Most Our

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

Dierks Bentley

Music Great Energy Think Country

I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

Daya

Good Myself People Makeup Look Want

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

Cory Hardrict

Day Independence I Can Said Want

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

Cory Booker

Government Logic Debt Against Apply

Oh, I'm kooky.

Courteney Cox

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

Allan Gurganus

Knowledge Childhood People Me Early