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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary

steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
Jeremy Northam

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
Tatiana Maslany

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
Steve Cropper

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
Monica Bellucci

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
Ringo Starr

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Lewis Mumford

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
Sally Ride

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