John Engler Quotes
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Men are visual creatures.
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I love connected culture.
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
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It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.
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I'm very happy alone.
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I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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I don't put labels on myself.
