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Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations. Nick James
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Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,
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We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers, Jeff Bezos
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Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. Nigel Barker
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The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose. Michael A. Stackpole
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. Lois Lowry
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It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. Ashwin Sanghi
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Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. Lee Child
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
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We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.
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There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
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Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
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When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
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Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
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When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
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A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
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When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
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There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. Antonio Tabucchi
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims. Bill Nye
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We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.
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We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.
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We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.
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We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.
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We've seen claims in the last month that they didn't know until July of this year, and now you're working around the clock to find out what's wrong, ... That's rubbish. You knew you had a problem a long time ago. You had recalls in 18 countries. This committee's staff has uncovered memos going back to 1997 where you knew you had a problem and you didn't do anything about it. Heather Wilson
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The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar. S. Jay Olshansky
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The heart and the mind ... what an enigma. Charlie Chaplin
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As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART"...
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. Charles W. Chesnutt
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
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The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap. Charles Sumner
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. Charles de Lint
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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We might as well die as to go on living like this.
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
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But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
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God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
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I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
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Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
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Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
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If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
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I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent. Mike Judge
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I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now. John Nash
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived. Axl Rose
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent. Paul Lieberstein
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I have no new voices - they've all been used. Hank Azaria
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Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans. Rick Springfield
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I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head! Richard LaGravenese
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You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside. Janet Weiss
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived. Byron Katie
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We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo. Jared Leto
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Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.
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We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes. Pat White
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With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called. Stephen Graham Jones
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We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.
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We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.
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Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially. Keke Palmer
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I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.