David Agus Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
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I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
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We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
