#tend

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#less #like #me #more #other

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#i #interested #less #lot #me

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down. ↗

— Richard Curtis

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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#any #glamorous #having #me #might

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#discipline #example #exceptional #for example #i

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#attendant #being #i #like #lucky

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #great #never #our #repent

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior. ↗

— William Friedkin

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