Joel Rosenberg Quotes
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
Quotes to Explore
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
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My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had. It's been one hell of a journey. There have been times I felt like the prodigal son because I left wrestling and abandoned this thing that I loved.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
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I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.
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Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
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The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
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Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
