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 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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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!
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Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!
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We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.
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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
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Sharpe, Lossow suspected, often got what he wanted, but the achievements never seemed to satisfy. His friend, the German decided, was like a man who, searching for a crock of gold, found ten and rejected them all because the pots were the wrong shape.
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I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
