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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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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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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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
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I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
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It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
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I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat.
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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
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I don't put labels on myself.
