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I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.


Joyce Maynard

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I am a person. I am not a soap opera.
KATE WINSLET I call it a bit of a soap opera.
TARA BIRTWHISTLE Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the A...
KEVIN KLINE Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
CHRIS LOWE I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don'...
PETER GOULD I hope we don't go any further on this. I think we're all sick of it. It's like a bad soap opera, an...
AARON SPELLING Sometimes I can't help but think you and I are playing a role in this bizarre Anacortes soap opera.
ROY HOWSON You don’t put a soap opera star in charge of an entire galaxy.
ASHLEY POSTON I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
CLIFFORD GEERTZ Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into bo...
PER PETTERSON I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT I never thought of myself as a writer.
DAVID E. KELLEY I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
JUDY GARLAND But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous ...
JEREMY BULLOCH But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS It takes two to tango, three to make a soap opera!
KARAN OMIDVARI When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapol...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI The bosoms may not heave as much. There's a lot of hyperbole and there's a lot of melodrama. I think...
NINA TASSLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف You know, a soap opera - you watch it every day, and nothing changes,
STEPHEN HARPER Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as...
WARREN ELLIS I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, ...
JEWEL STAITE No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.
HARRY F. WATERS Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People wa...
DAN STEVENS My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn'...
JENNIFER ANISTON The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of no...
STEFAN KANFER Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?”

“I’m not imp...
ILONA ANDREWS I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
RAY LIOTTA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS This will be a soap opera, with no one writing the script - stay tuned.
GEORGE BICHER I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a st...
STEVEN MOFFAT I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
KATE O'BRIEN I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit...
KATEE SACKHOFF I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wan...
KEVIN KLINE I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wan...
KEVIN KLINE I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe...
RUBEN BLADES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, a...
LEE BREUER Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an...
ANGELA CARTER I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance wh...
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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the a...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES In the long run, we're all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has r...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers wh...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin'...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those bro...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, e...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Investing is the one sphere of life and activity where victory, security and success is always to th...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene.
SGT. STEVE MAYNARD