Karl Rove Quotes
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
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There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
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I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
