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I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again. ↗

— Jason Statham

#been #enough #few #i #injuries

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way. ↗

— Julia Child

#i #i tried #keep #love #me

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#another #command #give #i #loved

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. ↗

— Julia Child

#help #i #never #number #office

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. ↗

— Julia Child

#art form #cooking #form #france #national

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end. ↗

— Lee Child

#ask #beginning #end #question #thriller

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that! ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #i am #know #me #really