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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.


Charles S. Dutton

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S. JAY OLSHANSKY Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
S. J. PERELMAN In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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