Knute Nelson Quotes
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I don't like attacking.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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I am an unpredictable journey.
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One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
