James Mattis Quotes
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
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Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
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I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
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My head is massive. My head is, like, off the charts.
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It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
