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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom.
You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.
I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.
My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.
I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.
When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.