James A. Michener Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
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I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
