- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020