Denis Johnson Quotes
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
Ban Ki-moon
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Ted Rall
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were 'Maxwell’s Equations of Software!'
Alan Kay
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If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
Martin Rees
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Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
Jennifer McMahon
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
Fred Saberhagen
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I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
Chaske Spencer
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson
