Dale Archer Quotes
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.
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There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
