Galveston Giant (John Arthur Johnson) Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar (to me, anyway). Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
