David Cook Quotes
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.
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I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
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No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.
