David James Duncan Quotes
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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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.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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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.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.
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Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.
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Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
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God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
