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Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.


T.E. Lawrence

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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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LAWRENCE DURRELL Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver wh...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are g...
MARTIN LAWRENCE If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place a...
MARTIN LAWRENCE We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
MARTIN LAWRENCE You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
MARTIN LAWRENCE You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who wi...
MARTIN LAWRENCE No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
MARTIN LAWRENCE Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
LAWRENCE WELK I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...
D.H. LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
D.H. LAWRENCE Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
VICKI LAWRENCE When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whate...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in ...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'A...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poe...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career ...
VICKI LAWRENCE I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto...
LAWRENCE BENDER Hillary Clinton would raise taxes on so-called rich people, corporations, capital gains, financial t...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW A teenager's early experimentation might be minor, but it can still have a damaging effect on their ...
ANDREW LAWRENCE By affecting basic brain functions, amphetamine may expose experimenting teenagers to an increased r...
ANDREW LAWRENCE As well as activating the brain's reward system, which is involved in addiction, amphetamine also af...
ANDREW LAWRENCE