Joe Theismann Quotes
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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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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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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I've done network shows. A director will call me and say, 'Do you want to do this with me?' and I'll say, 'Sure,' but I couldn't do it forever because there's no real expression. That's not how people talk.
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I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.
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I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.
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I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
