Doreen Cronin Quotes
The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
Quotes to Explore
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A novel is not a rant.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.
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I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.
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On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.
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I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
