Doug Ducey Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
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Don't let people tell you that you can't do something.
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Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.
