James Balog Quotes
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.
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I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
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I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
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I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
