Diego Godin Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
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Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.
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The mentality is always to win.
