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I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more

or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
Seamus Heaney

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
Russell Smith

I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.
Blake Lively

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?
Terry Pratchett

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
Hunter Hayes

I think we should not control the Internet.
Vladimir Putin

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!
Mary Lambert

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
Fairuza Balk

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Dan Webster

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