Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
The South Korean flag continues to function at least in South Korea, not as a symbol of the state but as a symbol of the race.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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I've been doing yoga since 1980 or '81, and I've kind of developed my own routine. It's challenging and thorough, but I'm not holy about it. Sometimes I'll watch a tape of Jon Stewart's show while exercising.
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Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
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The South Korean flag continues to function at least in South Korea, not as a symbol of the state but as a symbol of the race.
