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• Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, People

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Dream, Thinking, Voice

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• Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reading, Doe, World

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.

  Johnny Depp

  Confused, Real, Character

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• I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

  Eric Hernandez

  Technique, Unorthodox, Watches

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• If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Humor, Fake

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• Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

  John Donne

  Friendship, Eye, Faces

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• I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Determination, Ideas, Talent

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Goal, Abortion

  Source: the-talks.com

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• All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Wish, Stories

  Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

  Bill Watterson

  Names, Long, Credit

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Every generation has to find their own heroes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hero, Generations, Including

  Source: www.viewlondon.co.uk

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• I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Successful, Years

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 2012.

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• I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, School, Age

  Source: garyboalnireland.blogspot.com

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• Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, Play

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Ideas, Together

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Narrative

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, People, Letters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."

  Richard Bach

  Creativity, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Self, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2874, Oxford University Press

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• Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Anger, Fate, Race

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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