Floyd Skloot Quotes
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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I decided a long time ago that if I was going to do anything internationally, it would be mainstream pop entertainment - and that's exactly what 'Quantico' is. The diversity is just reflective of the world today - look around you: this is what America looks like. This is what the world looks like. It's time Hollywood embraced that.
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An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
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Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and can walk to school, but I don't feel I need to babysit it.
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Love in animals, has not for its only object animals of the same species, but extends itself farther, and comprehends almost every sensible and thinking being. A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection.
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
