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House Quotes - Page 196

I was scouted when I was like sixteen and I hated it. I wasn’t ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

"Futures: Sean Baker’s ‘Starlet’ Dree Hemingway Opens Up About Life as Model and Acting Opposite an 87-Year-Old Newcomer". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 8, 2012.

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

"A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

I've been to the White House a number of times.

"Doris Kearns Goodwin on 'Lincoln' and Her Conversations With Obama About the 16th President". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 13, 2012.