No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

The art world can be very intimidating because it’s just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you’re never going to be...

I’m really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I’m a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I’m happy to be Jewish.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different – even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach...

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it’s as though the ‘Aussie’ is refined out of them. I don’t know why. It’s never happened to me, because I’m really proud of it. I’m not embarrassed about where...

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don’t necessarily determine if you’re good or not. I know that now.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

I truly don’t know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we’re the only species that lives here, we’ll create a disaster for ourselves.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I’d like a boy, though. Because they’re in charge.

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s,...

Though I’m a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though it’s not necessarily evident in anything that’s finished.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown’s disguise.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller,...

Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn’t work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more...

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist’s voice without making it sound as though I was ‘dumbing down’ to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with...

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition.

In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor...

The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I’m not the starter. I’ve got a chance to get back...

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I don’t have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don’t have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece...

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

One day, though, I was asked if I’d like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

When you drink fluoridated water, you’re drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it’s a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs...

Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we’re always going to involve everybody. When I look at ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part...

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I’ve seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn’t think so.

Even though I’m from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn’t really much of a conversation.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I’m just gonna see what happens.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I didn’t want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.