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 do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.
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This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender MajestyHer Message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - Judge tenderly - of Me
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Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
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I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
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Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.
