David Wong (Jason Pargin) Quotes
There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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In some ways, what I need is a wife.
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I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.
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If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.
