Piers Anthony Quotes
I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
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It feels good when you learn to move on in life.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
