Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Italo Calvino

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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Italo Calvino

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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Italo Calvino

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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Italo Calvino

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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Italo Calvino

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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla

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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Italo Calvino

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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Peter Dinklage

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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Peter Dinklage

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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

Peter Dinklage

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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

Peter Dinklage

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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Peter Dinklage

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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Gene Roddenberry

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I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Gene Roddenberry

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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Gary Larson

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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Gary Larson

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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Gary Larson

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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Gene Wilder

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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Gene Wilder

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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Pete Townshend

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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Pete Townshend

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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Gene Wilder

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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

Gene Wilder

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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Gene Wilder

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Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

Gene Wilder

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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Gene Wilder

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If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Gene Wilder

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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Gene Wilder

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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Gene Wilder

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Iyanla Vanzant

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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

Iyanla Vanzant

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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Iyanla Vanzant

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

Ian Somerhalder

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

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Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

Georg Cantor

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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Georg Cantor

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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

Iggy Azalea

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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Peter Dinklage

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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

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Italo Calvino

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Italo Calvino

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Italo Calvino

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Italo Calvino

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Italo Calvino

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Peter Dinklage

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

Peter Dinklage

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Peter Dinklage

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Gene Roddenberry

I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Gene Roddenberry

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Gary Larson

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Gary Larson

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Gary Larson

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Gene Wilder

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Gene Wilder

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Pete Townshend

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Pete Townshend

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Gene Wilder

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

Gene Wilder

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Gene Wilder

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Gene Wilder

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Gene Wilder

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Gene Wilder

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Iyanla Vanzant

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

Iyanla Vanzant

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.