James Lee Burke Quotes
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
James Lee Burke
Quotes to Explore
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Natalia Vodianova
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Fay Vincent
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I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
Barry Watson
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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Adam Hamilton
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In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
Karl Schroeder
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Philips, whose touch harmonious could removeThe pangs of guilty power and hapless love!Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more;Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Samuel Johnson
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I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.
Bill Engvall
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
Plato
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
Garry Winogrand
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If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.
Bennett Miller
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His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.
Ally Carter
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
James Lee Burke