Rafael dos Anjos Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?
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I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
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My dad used to tour playing guitar with New Edition.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
