Neil Strauss Quotes
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.
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I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
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To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.
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I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
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I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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Gay is not a choice.
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I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
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The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
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Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.
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very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.