James Lee Burke Quotes
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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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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If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
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What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
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I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
