Joe Meno Quotes
There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
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I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not so much what they're going to do, but how as a parent, how my wife and I as parents, how best we should prepare them for the world. And I know everybody does this, I think everybody stays up at night thinking about the best thing for their kids, and astronauts are no different.
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There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.
