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RONALDINHO ALBERT CAMUS 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio... NOAH HAWLEY They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true. BELA FLECK I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of pl... BROOKE SWEAT JOHN IRVING DAVID BERGEN I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'... WATKIN TUDOR JONES BRIAN HELGELAND ARNOLD BENNETT GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly in... NIGEL FARAGE FOREST WHITAKER THOMAS SOWELL A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' ... KAREN TRAVISS It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ... FELICITY JONES People think that my personality can be reduced to what?s in the songs on Hey Babe and it?s not true... JULIANA HATFIELD I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other... EZRA KLEIN The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the... PATRICK MARBER NEIL GAIMAN BEN HOPKINS Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. CHAD HARBACH You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ... IMELDA STAUNTON MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH JAMES DEAN Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's ... DEREK LUKE NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and ... DANIEL ALARCON J. G. BALLARD SHARON STONE DAVID MITCHELL ALEX PAREENE TA-NEHISI COATES DON MIGUEL RUIZ G.K. CHESTERTON Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that'... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON STEPHEN KING Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness ... JERRY B. JENKINS E. O. WILSON The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it'... PATRICK O'BRIAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES RACHEL CUSK ADAM GRANT ANNE ENRIGHT I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Spe... HARVEY WEINSTEIN B. F. SKINNER SALMAN RUSHDIE ALAN FURST I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who coul... EDDIE MARSAN DAVID EAGLEMAN We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE GARY SHEFFIELD ALEX LIFESON VERONICA ROTH I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give ... GRAHAM PHILLIPS 'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is ju... ADAM PALLY It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can ... GAO XINGJIAN KHALED HOSSEINI CHANG-RAE LEE JAMES SALTER I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people ... TAKERU KOBAYASHI The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense co... VAL MCDERMID I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm... DONNY OSMOND I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them wha... SCOTT IAN ARUNDHATI ROY I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. ... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN KATEE SACKHOFF JANE SMILEY DIANE SAWYER The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient... EDWARD M. LERNER ERICA JONG DIONNE WARWICK IDINA MENZEL I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they&... TAIYE SELASI BO BURNHAM A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, &#... JANE GREEN EULA BISS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON ANDY ROONEY JULIA CAMERON STEVE JOBS I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly wha... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true! MILA KUNIS A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can&#... VICKY MCCLURE
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NATE POWELL My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ... NATE POWELL We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l... NATE POWELL The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b... NATE POWELL There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own... NATE POWELL Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that. NATE POWELL Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta... NATE POWELL I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w... NATE POWELL I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,... 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ENOCH POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. POWELL CLAYTON The BBG may want to start numerous new broadcast services, or revive VOA (Voice of America) services... ADAM POWELL Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. ADAM POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. ADAM POWELL Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. ADAM POWELL Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th... ADAM POWELL Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man. ROBERT POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL JOHN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL E.P. POWELL JOHN POWELL JOHN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ELEANOR POWELL JOHN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan... WILLIAM POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou... JONATHAN POWELL LUCY POWELL LUCY POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ... DAWN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time. ROBERT POWELL COLIN POWELL COLIN POWELL Our smallest amount of miles in one day is 33 miles. And then, our largest is 105. I'm really scared... BECKY POWELL And I have this at my grasp, and I have to take advantage of it. BECKY POWELL And they were all excited and they were going to do it. But then, none of them did it. Just me doing... 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