James D. Houston Quotes
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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Right discrimination is of two kinds - analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.
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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.
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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.
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Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
