M. J. Rose Quotes

Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

M. J. Rose

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I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

Jill Scott

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When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.

Jessica Simpson

GreatStyleJobPeopleThinkLook

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

Jennifer Lee

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As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Jennifer Westfeldt

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I wrote the worst novel ever.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Studs Terkel

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I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Roger Ebert

HeartGreatWiseMeKnowCritic

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

Ruben Blades

WrongProductAcceptRightConsensus

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Mary Wollstonecraft

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People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Mickey Kaus

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Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.

Brian Acton

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In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

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