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Roger Zelazny

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BRAND BLANSHARD I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
LIAM NEESON I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great i...
CAROL BERG I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.
PETER ACKROYD You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on...
DEREK JACOBI To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.
ORAN KANGAS I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
RICHIE ASHBURN I think it will be fun. We've known all those guys since we were sophomores.
CASEY RIDDLE I told another guy about this league, and he kept asking and asking and asking if we had any opening...
BRIAN MCCOMB I wish I had time to take you all on field trips.
DAN SPECKHART I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people thi...
GERRY COONEY Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had t...
JASPER FFORDE I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Wel...
ROGER REES What's his idea of heaven? "Acting heaven would be Hamlet," he states, without hesitation. "With Lea...
KEANU REEVES My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the tw...
WARREN MOON I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you...
WILLIAM WILEY Getting behind those guys, all I had to beat was one (defender).
ANTHONY GERBINO I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I wish we had the money to do this. I think we all do.
JOE SCHITTER I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are...
ERIC CLAPTON I'll probably reach out to those guys this week. I like to know things instead of just speculating. ...
JEFF MALONE I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.
MEGAN FOX Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
LARRY HOLMES I know I feed off Roger, and I'm sure other guys do, too. It's a different role for me. I was just a...
ANDY PETTITTE I wish I had a funny story.
LESLIE EASTERBROOK It's a blessing for those guys, but hey, we wish we had them here still,
ANTWAN PEEK I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindber...
KURT SUTTER Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago. All of us may hold opinions which are objectionabl...
INAYAT BUNGLAWALA I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE We were just so slow for some reason last time. We didn't push it much so they had time to get three...
JACK LOOFBURROW I wish Roger absolutely well. But I can't imagine doing more than a one-off with him and the other g...
DAVID GILMOUR Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
ADAM PASCAL There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
JESSE JAMES GARRETT I cried for a long time. Saying goodbye to all those guys helped me become who I am. It hurt me the ...
TERRY CAULLEY I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
JIMMY CARTER I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
LATA MANGESHKAR It wouldn't surprise me if these guys made a run in the tournament. We've got nine seniors. I wish I...
JACOB GRUSE I'm a visionary. And I envisioned all of this. The kids laugh, but I envisioned this a long time ago...
DAVE VANDIVER I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
HARVEY KORMAN For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time a...
JOE PERRY If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.
PHYLICIA RASHAD Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS I had a fantastic time. We hadn't played as Pink Floyd in 10 years and hadn't played with Roger in 2...
DAVID GILMOUR It's tough losing all those guys and a coach, too, but we support all their decisions and wish them ...
GLEN MILLICAN I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three pla...
ROB LOWE Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
NASTASSJA KINSKI I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
GENA ROWLANDS Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did t...
KATE BECKINSALE I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also w...
ELIJAH KELLEY If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I...
PAULA QUINN Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or s...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We're right where I thought we would be. We had some tough games early and all the tournaments we pl...
ALEX FIGERT I did start down that path some time ago,
FRANK BLACK My hat's off completely to the search-and-rescue folks . . . although I imagine it had to take some ...
MIKE MCCOWAN I hate that it had to come down to this. It's so sad. He should have been in prison a long time ago,...
KATIE JOHNSON When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better ti...
ROBERT REDFORD Our view was, more power to you, ... If he got resistance, he didn't get it from us. I wish I had kn...
STEVE MITCHELL All in all, I'm proud of the way the guys played. The guys played hard all the time, and I think the...
DAVE TREMBLEY It was rough but we had to continue to believe. Every time I went into the huddle I told those guys ...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER I will definitely miss this place. But, like I said, it is time to explore some other opportunities....
FRANK MABRY I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it ...
LADY GAGA I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the...
JULIE WHITE I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This....
CHUCK PALAHNIUK All the guys are dedicated to getting better and learning the game. This team is a nice bunch of guy...
JOE BIRKHAUSER The first time I mentioned publicly that I had known Viola for some time, many people took it like V...
JOVAN ADEPO Once upon a time, I wish I had sneezed. The end.
AHMED MOSTAFA First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.
JOHN HODGMAN Those guys will be Seahawks forever. I know that they've been an inspiration to us, just the standar...
MACK STRONG It is kind of weird, but I'm happy for those guys. I called up Bobby Engram (on Monday) and congratu...
WILLIE WILLIAMS This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happ...
LISA MANTCHEV Quincy called one and I told them we only had one and told them we needed one at the end. But those ...
GARY WATERS I have kept a diary,
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ADA YONATH James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG I remember daydreaming out in the outfield: I wish I had more time. I want to read 'The Brothers...
RICHARD LINKLATER Last year, I didn't do much scoring, because we had people like Leonard, Sean Glenn and J.P, but I k...
JAQUAN BRAY I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN I was trying to get these guys some game time.
DENNIS COSTA I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never kn...
JOE PETERS If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
MIKE MYERS Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my le...
JAMES BLAKE Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
MAUREEN O'HARA I think we'll rebound. I think you'll see Robby and James and all those guys have career years this ...
ANDY RODDICK To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG I heard some things this week, but you never know what the deal is. We practiced and prepared all we...
DEREK WRIGHT Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the i...
LEE SCOTT I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an a...
BOB COSTAS When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be ha...
ILENE BECKERMAN I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those year...
SYLVESTER STALLONE I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I will never regret being with you, Syd. Never. And I wish I could go back and relive those h...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those t...
JOHN MCENROE We had some good pitching and the guys hit the ball really well. We got some other guys some playing...
MARK LARSEN I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.
COOTER FAILLA I wish I'd known you when you were alive
LEONARD LOUIS LEVINSON Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long...
LIEV SCHREIBER My only regrets in my career are that I never spent any time overseas as a reporter, and that I was ...
ART COOPER No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
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ROGER EBERT Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
ROGER EBERT That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon...
ROGER MCGUINN Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
ROGER MILLER The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes ...
ROGER MAHONY My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT