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• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

  Steve Martin

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Someone, Why

• My next book – each one while I’m working on it – dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn’t, why would I write it?

  Yann Martel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Book, Why

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.

  Yann Martel

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  Tags in Good, Happy, Why

• To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That’s why it’s so hard to do it.

  Richard Anthony Marin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Why, Team

• I don’t understand why people think it’s harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

  Leslie Mann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Why, Comedy

• No Child Left Behind’s fourth-grade gains aren’t learning gains, they’re testing gains. That’s why they don’t last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Law, Why

• They say you can’t study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Why, Same

• Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country’s course. This cuts against the grain, and that’s why incumbents have a natural advantage.

  John Podhoretz

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Why

• In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Give, Why

• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Why, Rather

• So what I’m saying is why don’t we think about changing Schrodinger’s equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein’s general relativity.

  Roger Penrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Why

• My love for the band is still there. It hasn’t changed, maybe that’s why it’s so painful these days.

  Roger Daltrey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Why, Days

• Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

  Rocky Marciano

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Why, Guy

• Why don’t you put that in the headline: ‘He Only Did Three With Doris!’ Set a lot of people straight.

  Rock Hudson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Did, Why

• Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Why, Geographical

• Ultimately we may still ask, why can’t humans design a perfect society?

  Robert Shea

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in May, Why

• My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easily, Why

• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Why, Far

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Why, Far

• I love vampire stories. That’s why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Women, Why