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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.
What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
I received a call from America after finishing 'Suspect', and I told them that I would go to America if things are ready.
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
It's what you do after making a mistake - that's what I like to see. As long as you mature and grow with it, that's fine.
Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.
The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people's physical and mental health.