Mark Helprin
Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a mov... SPIKE JONZE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON MARINA ABRAMOVIC La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it&#... BILLY AL BENGSTON JONATHAN DEMME SAM SHEPARD Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than i... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY PETER THIEL PIET MONDRIAN MIKE MILLS SYDNEY J. HARRIS N. T. WRIGHT When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing.... JOY MANGANO I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M... CALLIE KHOURI VICTORIA SMURFIT ROBERT FISK if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have IRAZ 'DEALOVA' I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an i... IAN AXEL They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there... PHIL RAMONE 'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an a... RICHARD CORLISS BERNADETTE DEVLIN BERNADETTE DEVLIN BERNADETTE DEVLIN BERNADETTE DEVLIN DOUGLAS ADAMS TOM DELONGE What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE NATASHA LYONNE KATHRYN MINSHEW JERRY SALTZ It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of ... DANIEL ALARCON The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody t... GAVID HOOD 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatev... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're f... JENNIFER PAHLKA Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &... WINSLOW HOMER There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - i... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT EDWARD SNOWDEN BARRY MCGEE TREY PARKER SHAUN TAN It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising id... STELLAN SKARSGARD BENNY FINE RICHARD DAWKINS Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because yo... DAVID GUETTA 'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect b... RAMI MALEK SAM ALTMAN OGDEN NASH My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get b... CAM I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my f... KATHY MATTEA ADAM CAROLLA All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance... CHRISTOPHER MILLER I've been interested in art and fashion for as long as I can remember because they are so visual... DAVID HALLBERG Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words n... SIMON MCBURNEY I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. B... JOHN ZORN ROBERT WYATT MARLEE MATLIN I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, '... GEOFF DYER I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters m... ALEX GARLAND DAN STEVENS ALISON MOYET DAN HICKS One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth... SAMANTHA SHANNON If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's q... KATE O'MARA Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and... MEREDITH MONK Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting... LARRY MILLER The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and wo... FRANK GEHRY BILLY GRAHAM Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' RACHEL CUSK If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instanc... ALEXEI SAYLE What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drive... LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG EDMUND WHITE
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You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. 
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... 
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman.... 
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The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the presen... 
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art ha... 
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufactur... 
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ... 
The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done thi... 
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves -... 
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo... 
To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. 
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid t... 
I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of hum... 
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'o... 
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why i... 
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They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w... 
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyon... 
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, i... 
My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th... 
That's part of the 'MyMusic' idea: things that work online are the things that don't... 
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m... 
There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that li... 
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she w... 
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I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've don... 
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as... 
I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is th... 
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t... 
We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other... 
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just cond... 
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take som... 
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have... 
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. 
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, w... 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... 
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... 
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... 
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... 
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... 
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... 
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