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WALTON GOGGINS He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY They offered us Tommy Lee , they didn't offer us Snow White. ... Tommy Lee Goes to College.
HARVEY PERLMAN And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's b...
STEPHEN KING I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I wi...
BURN GORMAN Tommy Lee Goes to College.
TOMMY LEE Tommy Lee Goes to College.
MATT ELLIS Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to mo...
JORDAN GAVARIS I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer...
JOSEPH BRODSKY When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
JACKIE CHAN My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English languag...
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BRIAN TATE They offered us Tommy Lee, they didn't offer us Snow White,
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STEVE SABOL If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCa...
JANE SMILEY He can be a Kevin Jones or a Lee Suggs. He can be the next big back here at Virginia Tech.
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ICE CUBE By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the per...
MARK TWAIN There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in...
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LEODIS MATTHEWS I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No l...
YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who...
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BLAKE LIVELY Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back togethe...
JAY LENO Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!
ASTRO Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American...
CYBILL SHEPHERD Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
ALFRED DAY HERSHEY We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I h...
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ADAM RAYNER 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it ta...
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ANTJE TRAUE What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he...
NEIL CROSS Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
IMAN Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new Engli...
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VICTOR HUGO Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say a...
BARRY SONNENFELD The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
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SEAN BERDY I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Poetry is the language of the soul;
Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.
Each line must...
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APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We&#...
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ALEX COX A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy th...
RAKUL PREET SINGH So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn...
HUGO BLACK I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the w...
MICHAEL PHELPS The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real...
HUGO BALL Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
JEFF BEZOS I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doo...
DAVID NICHOLLS George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a cel...
GRAHAM JOYCE Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen c...
SUSAN SONTAG Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phe...
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MITT ROMNEY The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts
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EMIR KUSTURICA When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
ELVIS MITCHELL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the Am...
BEN SHAPIRO My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's any...
ANNE WOJCICKI My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy...
LELAND ORSER I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodime...
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OMAR DORSEY If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr...
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TOMMY COOPER I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, e...
TOMMY WISEAU People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing....
TOMMY CHONG The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee...
TOMMY RAMONE The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for...
TOMMY CALDWELL Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you ...
TOMMY CALDWELL I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had st...
TOMMY CALDWELL When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was ...
TOMMY LASORDA As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to pla...
TOMMY SHAW I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
TOMMY LASORDA If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Co...
TOMMY FRANKS Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
TOMMY COOPER A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around ...
TOMMY COOPER The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
TOMMY CHONG I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
TOMMY LASORDA I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian...
TOMMY RAMONE Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it...
TOMMY CHONG I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans,...
TOMMY CHONG Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
TOMMY LASORDA We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quick...
TOMMY FRANKS I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early...
TOMMY HILFIGER I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pu...
TOMMY LASORDA I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a ...
TOMMY DOUGLAS There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and t...
TOMMY LASORDA You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
TOMMY CHONG A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age....
TOMMY COOPER