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 loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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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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Every girl I've ever dated I have respect for, and I always try to leave them in good terms.
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Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
