#exact

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #been #books #exactly #go

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#exactly #highest #i #like #myself

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could. ↗

— Ian Rush

#could #enjoying #enjoyment #exactly #football

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment. ↗

— Marat Safin

#exactly #know #life #lot #moment

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life. ↗

— Christian Slater

#certain #certain time #character #each #exactly

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#doing #emmitt #exactly #i #imagine

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#discontent #exact #her #increases #proportion