L. Neil Smith Quotes

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

L. Neil Smith

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I think dieting is bad for you.

Joan Collins

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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Jess Walter

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I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

Jennifer Capriati

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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

Andrew Sean Greer

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There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.

Jeff Dunham

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I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Michael Franti

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I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

Stephen Baldwin

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John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

Sonny Mehta

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Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.

Mike D

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I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'

Michelle Phillips

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The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Jordana Spiro

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