Joe Cowley Quotes
I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I guess I'm flaky.
Quotes to Explore
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
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When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.
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Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.
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I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I guess I'm flaky.
