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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.


Candice Bergen
I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
John Malkovich
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
Matt Haig
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The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.


Jerry Weller
I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
Aurora
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.


Anne Sexton
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It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.'
Susanna Clarke
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Vicente Fox
I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.
Stephen Frears
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I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.
Daniel Woodrell
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I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.
Stephen Gaghan
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.


Mo Yan
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I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.
Eric Davis
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I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.


David Horowitz
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.


Walter Kirn
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.


Elie Wiesel
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'
Gloria Steinem
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England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
Jojo Moyes
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