Denis Johnson Quotes
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.Denis Johnson
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
Ramana Maharshi -
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
Inge de Bruijn -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
Taylor Dayne -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
Sam Yagan -
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple -
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
Chiang Kai-shek -
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
Mary Roberts Rinehart -
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
M.I.A. -
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
Daniel Mason -
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
Denis Johnson