John Cheever Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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You can stroke people with words.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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We welcome Donald Trump at 'Hamilton,' absolutely.
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When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
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I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
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Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn't care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
