James Mercer Quotes
The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
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What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.
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Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.
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The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
