James Lee Burke Quotes
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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I no longer limit myself.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
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I can remember a lot of nights performing in those early years where you felt that you hit some good moments, but a lot of the time you're thinking, "Oh, God, this isn't quite making it." So I think that is what makes you in the end refine your view of things a little bit.
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I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.
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Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
