David James Duncan Quotes
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
David James Duncan
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. Watt
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
Walter O'Brien
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Jack Osbourne
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
Kate Winslet
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
Yuri Kochiyama
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I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.
Jonathan Van Ness
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I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
James Daly
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The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
Kate Thompson
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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
Derek Blasberg
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My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
David James Duncan
