Powers Boothe Quotes
I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
