David Simon
Related As an actor, you want to do something challenging. And I wanted something that would break me out of... JOSEPH GANNASCOLI The last thing you want to do, if you are investing dreams, energy and money into a city edition, is... PAUL LEVINSON There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES I want to give something back. Not as many African-American or inner-city kids are playing baseball ... WAYNE GOMES CHARLES BUKOWSKI Bob Fosse told me if you open a musical script and there's more than a page or a page-and-a-half of ... GRACIELA DANIELE ROBERT SCOBLE AMITABH BACHCHAN Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that alw... BETSY BEERS ANTHONY T. HINCKS As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, c... AMISH TRIPATHI I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me... LAURA HILLENBRAND KELLY SUE DECONNICK I think she is a very important teacher for all three of the girls as far as a female role model and... HANK OGILBY There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If something happens to me, you'll know, well, hey, at least somebody spoke up. Just want to tell yo... CARLA HUBBARD NATE BERKUS If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'... MARY GARDEN You want something? Fight for it. End of story HANAE AVLEE A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But ha... JAN STRUTHER We want people to just be honest, if you like something, say you like it, if you don't like somethin... BIG KENNY COLIN FIRTH Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Mes poumons sont remplis de l'air pur
mon esprit est ouvert et libéré, la sérénité remplit tous... JACOB MAHURIEN If you go in as an American outsider, Mister Moneybags, and say 'I want to build you a school,' the ... JOHN WOOD Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a wr... ROBERTO ORCI ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Ford wanted to prove to a lot of people, and themselves, that they have access if they need it. I do... CHRISTOPHER WOLFE CHUCK PALAHNIUK CHUCK PALAHNIUK CHUCK PALAHNIUK You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You ha... MICHELLE GEANEY If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ... THEA HARRISON I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me. LESLI LINKA GLATTER In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep... ZHOU XUN Make software that you want to use and that you would want to use often. As long as you are making s... CABEL SASSER GEORGE M. COHAN Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE BOB DYLAN Every week you do want to work on something [on your own] . . . something you find yourself having p... BRYAN SCOTT Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell ... KERRY STOKES A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not ... MIKE GOODMAN JENNY ZHANG Passion is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire of doing what one loves.Passion is ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you lo... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it... ELENA ANAYA JERRY SPINELLI DANIEL RADCLIFFE NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE YIDDISH PROVERB YIDDISH PROVERB DEYTH BANGER You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, ... DAVID GRANN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS NEIL GAIMAN If you're a tall day, you don't want a tiny little hat. You want something that will balance your wh... CASEY BUSH ERIN MORGENSTERN GEORGE M. COHAN BRET EASTON ELLIS GEORGE SAUNDERS JACKIE COLLINS TOBA BETA MATTHEW SWEET RAINBOW ROWELL J. J. WATT SETH GODIN EDEN HAZARD JAKE GYLLENHAAL F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If you want to learn something about fly fishing, there's somebody that knows something about every ... KAREN BRAND When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is... MICHAEL KORYTA JASON NEWSTED I told them in the same words Coach Rob used: no half-stepping. This is a tournament that if you los... DAVID NOEL I am looking forward to the Games - it has been nice to have something to focus on. I know that if I... JO PAVEY ORSON SCOTT CARD JENNIFER ANISTON This is something I have been looking forward to for a long time. It's something I want to bring awa... JEFF SUPPAN If you want something good, you're going to have to pay for it. It's not a huge tax increase, but th... TRACEY ANDERS If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it... ELENA ANAYA DREW GILPIN FAUST ANN PATCHETT Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetit... ANDREW O'HAGAN JAMES BALDWIN AKIROQ BROST C. JOYBELL C. If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come b... WANDA SYKES SOURCE UNKNOWN When you want something you can't have consider that it's still better than having something you don... CRYSTAL DAWN SHEPHERD DELTA BURKE If you feel you have chosen the wrong skill, and want to move on to something else, that's fine too.... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA BECKY ALBERTALLI ALAN W. WATTS I want something that's going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about an... MARK FROST
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, p... 
You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But y... 
If you want to feel youthful...pink's your color.
Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag... 
Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backd... 
One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's ... 
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... 
'I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to... 
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to ... 
"'I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want t... 
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell ... 
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that... 
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than f... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. 
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. 
I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in... 
Why does she want me to stay here with her?' 'She wants something to love, I think,' said the cat. '... 
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume... 
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you... 
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to f... 
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k... 
If you want to be sure about something unusual like alien and UFO, then you have to think about it f... 
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t... 
The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the r... 
If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si... 
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for some... 
The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think... 
I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie... 
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. 
I wouldn't want to say never on anything like that, because it's fun to turn people's heads around w... 
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ... 
It's the media that won't move on, ... You just want to say, 'Come on, people! Turn a page!' 
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publi... 
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to hav... 
[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simpl... 
If you want something make it a priority. If you can't make it a priority, then it isn't something y... 
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and eve... 
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. 
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap 
There's something about you that makes me want to open up, and that's slightly terrifying to me. 
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Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ... 
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. Th... 
Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely... 
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. 
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope... 
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. 
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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv... 
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The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world... 
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his we... 
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... 
Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects an... 
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
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Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
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For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews... 
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist... 
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
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