Phillips Brooks Quotes
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
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There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
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I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
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I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.
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The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
