John D. MacDonald Quotes
Statistically it is probably the one city in the world where the most people have been killed in arguments over professional athletes.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.
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There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
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I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.
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If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Statistically it is probably the one city in the world where the most people have been killed in arguments over professional athletes.
