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“The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.”
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“Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.”
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“I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.”
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“A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.”
Source : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic
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“I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's represented by a move toward the Baltic, that would be very dangerous, but he would do it, on the assumption that he would ask himself the question: I am prepared to fight for Estonia. Is the United States? Is Germany? Is Britain, France?”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”
Source : Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
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“I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.”
