James Lane Allen Quotes
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Quotes to Explore
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.
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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
