Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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BEN MARCUS True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
POLLYANNA DARLING My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiti...
TANANARIVE DUE Everyone is scared of something, the truly brave are the ones that are willing to admit it.
REILLY L. BRAUN If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all right.
UNKNOWN Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like.
SPIDER ROBINSON There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me i...
CHINUA ACHEBE Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
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ROCK HUDSON I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now ...
LISA CRON Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I...
HENRY MILLER Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that h...
BEN SCHOTT Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing a...
DAN GREENBURG More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Truth is not determined by the number of people telling it or willing to admit to it.
DASHANNE STOKES All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it
THOMAS KEMPIS Very few doctors are willing to care for CFS patients because it is such a downer.
HUGH CALKINS Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based ...
MATTHEW MCGRORY There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to ...
DWIGHT L. MOODY I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The probl...
BARBARA HODGES Mistakes are the best lesson when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them....
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might
be willing to admit that God in Hebrew sai...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG All of my songs are autobiographical.
TAYLOR SWIFT Few market players here are willing to trade aggressively ... this is because of the US holiday toda...
HARRY IDA The pathway to a successful sexual trip is when two partners admit themselves as students ever willi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to...
DICK CAVETT The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m...
NIKKI GIOVANNI There are numerous instances, even if few businesses are willing to speak openly about them.
ERIC DENECE If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't...
BILL WALSH Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER That would be an old dog learning new tricks. This is not a company or a management team that has be...
CHARLIE GLAVIN I am willing to take risks, and willing to tolerate failure as long as we admit it, can learn from i...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int...
NATALIE MERCHANT All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL I would be the first to admit that the idea of writing the history of Europe is loaded.
ELIE BARNAVI There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
GREG LEMOND Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very muc...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Where there's a problem, she's willing to admit there is a problem and find a constructive solution,...
LARRY PHILLIPS They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BANKSY There are very few people who honestly admit that they are diplomatic, and rest diplomatically say t...
SATEJ RAMESH PRABHU In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b...
JUNOT DíAZ Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down you...
SOHIL ASHVIN SHAH There has to be some level of narcissism for one to willingly and actively be on social media or any...
ROSA M. BETANCES Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers ...
VIRGINIA ALISON I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
C. J. BOX Mistakes are painful, but as time goes by it becomes a collection of experience called lesson of wis...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
STANISLAW J. LEC Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.
But then he forgot all those pr...
TERRY MCMILLAN Every human being I know craves love and affection.
TERRY MCMILLAN I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
TERRY MCMILLAN There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes t...
TERRY MCMILLAN I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That'...
TERRY MCMILLAN You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your o...
TERRY MCMILLAN The Interruption of Everything
TERRY MCMILLAN Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that ever...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.
TERRY MCMILLAN He has lost his (expletive) mind if he thinks I'm going to let him walk off into the sunset with my ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,
TERRY MCMILLAN I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one
TERRY MCMILLAN She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it,...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about fin...
TERRY MCMILLAN I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
TERRY MCMILLAN You didn't say anything about being gay. You said everything but that.
TERRY MCMILLAN I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spi...
TERRY MCMILLAN That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with at...
TERRY MCMILLAN It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want...
TERRY MCMILLAN Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when...
TERRY MCMILLAN How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
TERRY MCMILLAN I thought you said you were trying to quit swearing!
Go to hell, Paulette. I will. As soon as I...
TERRY MCMILLAN يتعلق الكثيرون منا بما ليس في أيديهم ، وما لا يمكن أن يك...
TERRY MCMILLAN I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpet...
TERRY MCMILLAN Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
TERRY MCMILLAN Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.
TERRY MCMILLAN I pray for my sister. That she be allowed to discover grace and find peace without drugs. That her h...
TERRY MCMILLAN There was not a lot of conflict in the book. Most it was internal conflict so we had to externalize ...
TERRY MCMILLAN Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indi...
JEFF DANIELS As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasures ...
JT SANZ Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude ...
JOHN CHEEVER One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobio...
HARVEY PEKAR Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or n...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the fe...
ANAïS NIN great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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TERRY MCMILLAN For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.
But then he forgot all those pr...
TERRY MCMILLAN Every human being I know craves love and affection.
TERRY MCMILLAN I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
TERRY MCMILLAN There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes t...
TERRY MCMILLAN I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That'...
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TERRY MCMILLAN Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that ever...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.
TERRY MCMILLAN He has lost his (expletive) mind if he thinks I'm going to let him walk off into the sunset with my ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,
TERRY MCMILLAN I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one
TERRY MCMILLAN She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it,...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about fin...
TERRY MCMILLAN I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
TERRY MCMILLAN You didn't say anything about being gay. You said everything but that.
TERRY MCMILLAN I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spi...
TERRY MCMILLAN That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with at...
TERRY MCMILLAN It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want...
TERRY MCMILLAN Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when...
TERRY MCMILLAN How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
TERRY MCMILLAN I thought you said you were trying to quit swearing!
Go to hell, Paulette. I will. As soon as I...
TERRY MCMILLAN يتعلق الكثيرون منا بما ليس في أيديهم ، وما لا يمكن أن يك...
TERRY MCMILLAN I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpet...
TERRY MCMILLAN Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous...
TERRY MCMILLAN It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
TERRY MCMILLAN Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.
TERRY MCMILLAN I pray for my sister. That she be allowed to discover grace and find peace without drugs. That her h...
TERRY MCMILLAN There was not a lot of conflict in the book. Most it was internal conflict so we had to externalize ...
TERRY MCMILLAN You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not comp...
ALAN MCMILLAN A back injury, while it may not be life-threatening, can disable people for an extraordinary length ...
ALAN MCMILLAN You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN The results of this eight state regional program over just three weeks prove conclusively that high ...
ALAN MCMILLAN The U.S. ranks behind virtually every other developed country when it comes to seat belt use, and ne...
ALAN MCMILLAN In some cases, the globalization and expansion of new business activities in developing nations is c...
ALAN MCMILLAN For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
TOM MCMILLAN Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th...
TRACY MCMILLAN Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
TRACY MCMILLAN I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d...
TRACY MCMILLAN I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a ...
TRACY MCMILLAN I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in be...
TRACY MCMILLAN Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation ...
TRACY MCMILLAN Hallelujah. You don't want to be remembered for anything we were facing. It's only one game, but it'...
NATE MCMILLAN It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the...
RICHARD MCMILLAN The sport of climbing is very social and egalitarian. You shouldn't feel intimidated at going to a c...
LINDA MCMILLAN The similarity is the spontaneity of the unexpected great news, ... No one expected Mario's comeback...
TOM MCMILLAN You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN Lookin' buff, No. 8, ... Lookin' buff.
NATE MCMILLAN The similarity is the spontaneity of the unexpected great news. No one expected Mario's comeback ann...
TOM MCMILLAN We wanted more movement with the ball. We only had fourteen free throws, so we didn't get to the fou...
NATE MCMILLAN You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN If they force me to subdivide, they're going to raise hell because it will ruin their views.
WARREN MCMILLAN I think sometimes, you're going to go back and forth. There's certain things that I believe in as a ...
NATE MCMILLAN Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially ...
TRACY MCMILLAN We didn't handle pressure well at all. This was a total breakdown in controlling the ball on one end...
NATE MCMILLAN I need to ask some questions. I need to sit down and talk to some guys tomorrow, and just figure out...
NATE MCMILLAN The most important thing to me wasn't to keep up (academically) just to play. If you're going to do ...
ANDRE MCMILLAN They both leveled out pretty well.
ANDRE MCMILLAN He's a real good piano player and, when he makes beat, I like going to the room and listening.
ANDRE MCMILLAN Everybody had had an opportunity to play and now is the time to show what you are capable of doing.
NATE MCMILLAN If that's the case, the earlier we can do it after diagnosis the better.
DAVID MCMILLAN We want him to commit. If Zach commits to working and getting himself in shape and committed to carr...
NATE MCMILLAN It doesn't really feel like a party to me. There is a sense of the tragedy, but there is also that S...
BOB MCMILLAN As a policy, we're not going to comment and we're not going to confirm or deny any of these inquirie...
TOM MCMILLAN Most companies will wait until the very last moment, even weeks, before they officially postpone. It...
DAVID MCMILLAN It's the marginal deals which will be postponed.
DAVID MCMILLAN We've also completely rebuilt the apron on the western side of the terminal, where the airplanes par...
BO MCMILLAN The negotiations over airfares really did a lot to increase traffic. Our major corporations are util...
BO MCMILLAN The higher spending only explains a third of this reduction.
JOHN MCMILLAN Juan was the one guy who was making shots. That's what we've got to do, make some shots.
NATE MCMILLAN Think about it. It's a Friday in July in Pittsburgh and it's 4:30. You don't sell season tickets on ...
TOM MCMILLAN Without the upbringing I received from my Mother, I am not the good and decent person I am today. Th...
MIKE MCMILLAN I think most shows happen like this for actors, ... They're like a river. You hop on it and you take...
RICHARD MCMILLAN Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this...
TRACY MCMILLAN It's great to get the win on Senior Night. We're conference champs. Yes!
CHANTAE MCMILLAN It was a lot of fun. This hasn't happened in years. But, we want more. Hopefully, we still have dist...
CHANTAE MCMILLAN I just stopped thinking and let it fly.
CHANTAE MCMILLAN That's a tough situation to come off. I had a surgery before, and to be playing in this league and n...
NATE MCMILLAN The state mandated amount is totally insufficient.
DUNCAN MCMILLAN He was at the defense table, and he fell out in the floor between the defense table and the bench wh...
DUNCAN MCMILLAN This is an elementary education problem that any one district cannot solve on its own.
DUNCAN MCMILLAN love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back
ANDREW MCMILLAN There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to the...
TRACY MCMILLAN Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for ...
TRACY MCMILLAN There certainly is enough cash sitting on the sidelines to make a viable IPO market.
DAVID MCMILLAN The average international consumer is eating more expensively. With really good restaurants appearin...
DAVID MCMILLAN The calendar is still pretty full, but the market is in a wait-and-see mode.
DAVID MCMILLAN Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.
TRACY MCMILLAN Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.
HAROLD MCMILLAN Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rat...
HAROLD MCMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MCMILLAN Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN It wasn't meant for us today. Shots we would normally knock down weren't falling.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN We got too comfortable with our lead. We didn't match their intensity at the end of the game.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN I saw three guys collapse and I put it up there.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN We came out slow and they still were on that same upper level, and from then on we couldn't match it...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN Right now, we're not where we need to be. We've got to play 32 minutes and tonight was a prime examp...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN We have to be strong for young boys.
HELEN MCMILLAN All of a sudden she's gone ... in minutes. In minutes they've lost a daughter, lost a child.
HELEN MCMILLAN he looks the way
silence looks before it’s broken
ANDREW MCMILLAN She told her mom not to cry and to stay strong.
LONDELL MCMILLAN Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female...
LONDELL MCMILLAN She told her mom not to cry and to stay strong,
LONDELL MCMILLAN She's no longer fearful of the judicial system.
LONDELL MCMILLAN It's a shame to see a senior get hurt like that.
LEE MCMILLAN They have to be hiding something. If they weren't hiding something, why wouldn't they release it?
LEE MCMILLAN What they're doing is, they're hiding something.
LEE MCMILLAN We didn't think about anything being wrong with it. But we really hadn't drunk any. I had half a cup...
LINDA MCMILLAN oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big,
laid out like ripe fruit
make you wa...
ANDREW MCMILLAN Dixon came to my office after the game and was the first to apologize to me and to the team. He just...
NATE MCMILLAN I try to spend the city's money as if it were my own.
RICHARD MCMILLAN It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are t...
RICHARD MCMILLAN In my opinion, neither way is easy. If I'm going to struggle between artist and a normal 9 to 5 job....
ERIN MCMILLAN We either had to exit the business or become a much larger player. When they [purchased U.S. Foodser...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN We were very pleased with the results. We had a number of very interested buyers in this business. T...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN It's basically a transaction between two old friends.
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN We're obviously undervalued, but I'm sure most of my peers would say the same. I think the final tes...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try
doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You...
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TERRY TEACHOUT I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
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