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Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen -
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
‐‐ Jay McInerney -
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
‐‐ Tom Robbins -
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
‐‐ Barry Hannah -
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk -
Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.
‐‐ Joe Meno -
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
‐‐ Jean Toomer -
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
‐‐ Philip Yancey -
Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.
‐‐ Fatos Nano -
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!
‐‐ David Pratt -
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.
‐‐ John Darnielle -
Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
‐‐ J. C. Watts -
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz -
Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.
‐‐ Marc Benioff -
Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
‐‐ Steve Coogan -
Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
‐‐ Bruce Coville -
Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
‐‐ Kate Christensen -
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
‐‐ Jeremy Davies -
Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
‐‐ Alex Winston -
Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.
‐‐ Mike Rogers -
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
‐‐ Mike Rogers -
Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.
‐‐ Tom Douglas -
Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
‐‐ Alex Berenson -
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
‐‐ John Updike -
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
‐‐ Rob Sheffield -
Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
‐‐ Peter Thiel -
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.
‐‐ August Wilson -
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz -
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
‐‐ David Lynch -
Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.
‐‐ Mohammad Hamid Ansari -
Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao -
Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.
‐‐ Susan Barker -
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
‐‐ Ben Nicholas -
Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
‐‐ Regina Brett -
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
‐‐ Frances Perkins -
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
‐‐ Anne Lamott -
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
‐‐ Captain Beefheart -
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray -
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.
‐‐ Howie Mandel -
Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
‐‐ Genie Francis -
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
‐‐ Robert Crumb -
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller -
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
‐‐ Burton Cummings -
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
‐‐ Billy Corgan -
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
‐‐ Jane Badler -
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
‐‐ Reggie Lee -
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver -
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander -
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
‐‐ Peter Sotos -
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
‐‐ Greg Lake -
Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy -
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
‐‐ Antony Sher
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