James Daly Quotes
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
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People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
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The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
