James Hawes Quotes
There is no doubt that Michael Symmons Roberts is a very good poet - you don't win a Whitbread award and get shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize for nothing. Few poets, though, have ever been good novelists, and vice-versa.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
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Composers are not all good conductors.
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For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
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Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you.
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Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.
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There is no doubt that Michael Symmons Roberts is a very good poet - you don't win a Whitbread award and get shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize for nothing. Few poets, though, have ever been good novelists, and vice-versa.
