John Flavel Quotes
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.
